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Product Description: How can a king knock some sense into his silly sons so that they grow up sensible young men? A wise man tells the king that he can do the job in six weeks. Every time one of the boys says or does something rash, the sage will put him back on the straight and narrow by telling him a cautionary tale - the story of a proud hare, or perhaps an owl, or a crow… This collection of fables, known as the Panchatantra and familiar all over Asia, were first told, then written down in Sanskrit over 2,000 years ago...read more
By Bee Willey (illustrator)

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9781845079901 | Reprint edition (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, April 24, 2012), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: How can a king knock some sense into his silly sons so that they grow up sensible young men?

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A collection of nineteen English favorites including Jack and the Beanstalk and Tom Thumb

Paperback:

9780192741370, titled "English Fables and Fairy Stories" | Oxford Univ Pr, September 14, 1989, cover price $12.95 | also contains English Fables and Fairy Stories | About this edition: A collection of nineteen English favorites including Jack and the Beanstalk and Tom Thumb

Hardcover:

9780404701024 | Ams Pr Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $55.00

Offers a collection of twelve humorous stories set in Ireland featuring a host of eccentric characters

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9780140173246 | Penguin USA, January 1, 1993, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Offers a collection of twelve humorous stories set in Ireland featuring a host of eccentric characters

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A collection of nineteen English favorites including Jack and the Beanstalk and Tom Thumb

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9780809823185 | Random House Childrens Books, November 1, 1978, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Many traditional stories--Dick Whittington and his Cat, Tom Thumb, Jack and the Beanstalk--join equally good but not so well know stories like the story of the tailor who slew two giants, or the maid who had to travel to the well at the World's End, and Tattercoats,the ragamuffin who became a princess.
9780192741011 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of nineteen English favorites including Jack and the Beanstalk and Tom Thumb

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9780192741370 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 14, 1989, cover price $12.95 | also contains Mel Bay Presents Classics for Ukulele | About this edition: A collection of nineteen English favorites including Jack and the Beanstalk and Tom Thumb

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A collection of nineteen English favorites including Jack and the Beanstalk and Tom Thumb
By Rosamund Fowler (illustrator) and James Reeves

Paperback:

9780192750143 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 18, 1999, cover price $12.95

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9780606032650 | Demco Media, September 1, 1989, cover price $21.17 | About this edition: A collection of nineteen English favorites including Jack and the Beanstalk and Tom Thumb

An anthology of thirty-five previously uncollected stories--which range from witty frolics to chilling tales of madness and murder--includes 'On Gargoyles,' 'The Angry Street,' 'White Pillars Murder,' and 'How I Found Superman'

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9780816143788 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1988), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: An anthology of thirty-five previously uncollected stories--which range from witty frolics to chilling tales of madness and murder--includes 'On Gargoyles,' 'The Angry Street,' 'White Pillars Murder,' and 'How I Found Superman'

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An anthology of thirty-five previously uncollected stories ranges from witty frolics to chilling tales of madness and murder

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9780396088899 | Dodd Mead, November 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An anthology of thirty-five previously uncollected stories ranges from witty frolics to chilling tales of madness and murder

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With full-color illustrations, Adams re-creates nineteen folktales collected from around the world

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9780517542316 | Random House Value Pub, October 1, 1983, cover price $1.99 | About this edition: With full-color illustrations, Adams re-creates nineteen folktales collected from around the world

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