- American Fables, Animales, Animals, Children's stories, American
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
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Classical in form, spare, effortless and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Arnold Lobel
- First published
- June 1984
- Pages
- 40
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Amer School Pub, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- Chinese, fin, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780881037838
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“A Crocodile became increasingly fond of the wallpaper in his bedroom.”
Arnold Stark Lobel (May 22, 1933 – December 4, 1987) was an American author of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup. He wrote and illustrated these picture books as well as Fables, a 1981 Caldecott Medal winner for best-illustrated U.S. picture book. Lobel also illustrated books by other writers, including Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley published in 1969.
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