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25 fairy tales and fables
Stories selection: VIERA JANUSOVA Illustrations: ALEXEJ VOJTASEK
Designed by ONDREJ MARlASSY Translation: HEATHER TREBATICKA
Copyright© 1988 Slovart Publishers, Bratislava English Language Edition designed and produced by
Autumn Publishing Limited, Chichester, England
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This 1988 edition published by Derrydale Books, distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc.,
225 Park Avenue SouthNew York
New York 10003
Typeset by The Graphic Image, Hampshire, England Printed in Czechoslovakia
ISBN 0 517 64983 7 hgfedcba
DERRYDALE BOOKSNew York
25fairy tales and fables
Contents
The brave tin soldier..................................................................................... 9
I he two sisters and the wizard.................................................................... 18How the mice aired their gold coins ......................................................... 28
How the animals turned the bear over .................................................... 33
Who will find the sun? .................................................................................. 37The man, the buffalo and the tiger .......................................................... 44
The shaggy goat and the hedgehog.......................................................... 49Why dogs show their teeth ........................................................................... 54
How the rabbit bought his boots ................................................................ 58
The deer and the jaguar .............................................................................. 63
Father and Mother of the f orest ................................................................ 68
The straw bullock........................................................................................... 74
The bear and the mosquito.......................................................................... 82The girl called Mona..................................................................................... 87
The fisherman and the golden duck ........................................................ 94
The thirteen flies ........................................................................................... 101Bearskin and her seven brothers ............................................................... 106
The singing frog ............................................................................................. 113I he tomcat, the cockerel and the fox ....................................................... 120
Ori and Princess Blue-eyes .......................................................................... 130The gingerbread man ................................................................................... 139
A tale about thunder..................................................................................... 146How the wolf went fishing ........................................................................... 151
Why monkeys don’t build houses .............................................................. 155
The man and the dog ....................................................................... 159
