A time to laugh
A time to laugh: thirty stories for young children
edited by Sara and Stephen Corrin; illustrated by Gerald Rose
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber, 1972.
ISBN: 0571099505
LCC: PZ5
Summary:
A collection of thirty humorous tales including folktales, original
tales, fables, and myths.
Notes:
Clever Oonagh / Amabel Williams-Ellis -- Mrs. Pepperpot buys macaroni
/ Alf Proysen -- The emperor's oblong pancake / Peter Hughes -- Big
Claus and Little Claus / Hans Christian Andersen; translated by
Stephen Corrin -- The wishing-skin / Rhoda Power -- The fox and the
stork / Aesop -- Clever Stan and the stupid dragon / Rumanian
folktale; retold by Stephen Corrin -- Eeyore loses a tail and Pooh
finds one / A.A. Milne -- The Ju-Ju man / Ruth Ainsworth -- The
sparrows' tug of war / West African folktale; retold by Stephen
Corrin -- The brave little tailor / Grimm -- The tiger, the Brahmin
and the jackal / Indian folktale; retold by Stephen Corrin -- Mr.
Miacca / English folktale -- The chatterbox / Russian folktale,
adapted by Amabel Williams-Ellis and Moura Budberg -- Axe soup /
Russian folktale by Stephen Corrin -- The wonderful tar-baby / J.
Chandler Harris -- Brer Rabbit he's a good fisherman / J. Chandler
Harris -- Giacco and his bean / Italian folktale -- The horse and the
lion / Aesop -- A meal with a magician / J.B.S. Haldane -- The
elephant's picnic / Richard Hughes -- The language of animals /
Serbian folktale; translated by Evelyn Corrin -- The wicked little
jackal / South African folktale -- Puss and pup / Josef Čapek -- Can
men be such fools as all that? / Eleanor Farjeon -- The little hare
and the tiger / Persian folktale -- Six foolish fishermen / English
folktale retold by Stephen Corrin -- The ugsome thing / Ruth
Ainsworth -- The woman who always argued / Leila Berg -- The
magician's heart / E. Nesbit -- The elephant's child / Rudyard
Kipling.
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