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Why the Bear Has a Short Tail and Other Stories

(How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant and Other Stories)

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Author(s):Ludwig Bemelmans
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Illustrator(s):Anne Fleur
Compiler(s):Louise B. Williams
Publisher(s): Wonder Books
Year Published: 1946
Type: Hardcover
Genre: Animal Fantasy
Bears
Fables
Fiction - short story
Folk Tales
Picture Book
Age Range: Ages 0-5: Picture Books
Pages: 35
OCLC: 54038105

Description

A collection of short stories including How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant, originally published as Rosebud by Ludwig Bemelmans along with The Man Who Kept House and Why the Bear Has a Short Tail.

Other Editions

Hansi (1934)

Hansi spends Christmas with his aunt and uncle high in the mountains of the Tyrol.

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Publisher: The Viking Press
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The Castle Number Nine (1937)

Baptiste comes out of retirement to go to work for the Count at the Castle Number Nine.

Publisher: The Viking Press
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How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant and Other Stories (1946)

A collection of short stories including How the Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant, originally published as Rosebud by Ludwig Bemelmans along with The Man Who Kept House and Why the Bear Has a Short Tail.

Publisher: Wonder Books
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Ludwig Bemelmans’ Favorite Stories: Hansi, Rosebud and The Castle Number Nine (2016)

An Austrian boy spends the Christmas holidays in the Tyrolean mountains, a rabbit tries to prove he is the smartest animal and the Castle Number nine suffers a vocabulary disaster.

Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
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