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A tile design by William de Morgan, 1872 (Victoria & Albert Museum). The majority of literary allusions to the fable have contrasted the passivity of King Log with the energetic policy of King Stork, but it was pressed into the service of political commentary in the title "King Stork and King Log: at the dawn of a new reign", a study of Russia written in 1895 by the political assassin Sergey ...
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The best known books of the series are the 12 collections of fairy tales also known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book. Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851–1933) was an English author, editor, and translator.
A frog being eaten by King Stork, by Milo Winter to illustrate a 1919 Aesop anthology. Two fables attributed to Aesop, The Frogs Who Desired a King and The Frog and the Ox feature frog characters. The Frogs is a comic play by Aristophanes. The chorus of frogs sings the famous croaking onomatopoeic refrain: Brekekekèx-koàx-koáx (Greek ...
For articles on books with cover art by Freas, see Category:Books with cover art by Frank Kelly Freas. Media in category "Book covers by Frank Kelly Freas" The following 13 files are in this category, out of 13 total.
The preface for 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up is by children's illustrator and author Quentin Blake and introduction by Julia Eccleshare. [2] There is an index of titles, arranged alphabetically, and an index by author/illustrator, arranged alphabetically too, but by author/illustrator, not by title of book.
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The Frogs blame their King, who altogether denies the incident. In the meantime, Zeus , seeing the brewing war, proposes that the gods take sides, and specifically that Athena help the Mice. Athena refuses, saying that the Mice have done her a lot of mischief, as have the Frogs, and that it would be more prudent for the gods to watch rather ...