The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by La Fontaine

by Brian Wildsmith (Illustrator)

Other authorsLa Fontaine (Author)
Hardcover, 1964

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Available

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398.2

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Franklin Watts Incorporated (1964), Edition: Second Printing

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The North Wind and the Sun are having a competition to see who is the stronger. The Wind blows and blows. Leaves fall off the trees, ships start sinking, all the animals are frightened. Surely nothing can top this. The Wind has to be the more powerful. But does the Sun know something the Wind doesn't? (paperback reissue of ISBN 0-19-272168-2)

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