Classics Illustrated Junior
#522 [HRN 576] - The Nightingale
(October 1965)
Gilberton,
1953 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- ?
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Gilberton Company Inc.
- Brand
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Classics Illustrated Junior
- Editing
- ?
The Nightingale
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dik Browne ? (painting)
- Inks
- Dik Browne ? (painting)
- Colors
- Dik Browne ? (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Emperor; Page Boy; Nightingale; Mechanical Bird
- Synopsis
- Full-page, front cover illustration depicts the Emperor gazing upon the nightingale while the page boy looks upon the mechanical bird.
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[Dot-to-Dot Puzzle]
What Is It? / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Synopsis
- Full-page, inside front cover dot-to-dot puzzle.
The Nightingale
The Nightingale / comic story / 27 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Emperor; Nightingale; Mechanical Bird; Kitchen Maid; Courtiers
- Synopsis
- The Emperor is delighted with the song of a nightingale until he receives the gift of a mechanical bird. Charmed by the unusual toy, the Emperor snubs the nightingale and she returns to the forest. When the mechanical bird breaks down from overuse, the Emperor falls deathly ill but the nightingale returns to the palace and her song restores his health.
The Hare and the Tortoise
Aesop's Fables / comic story / 3 pages
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Hare; Tortoise; Forest Animals
- Synopsis
- The hare and the tortoise run a footrace but the cocksure hare stops to take a nap and the tortoise wins the race, proving that one should never be too sure of oneself.
The Moon
text article / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Synopsis
- Poem from "A Child's Garden of Verses" about the moon.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
text article / 1 page
- Characters
- Mary; Lamb; Teacher; Children
- Synopsis
- Nursery rhyme about Mary and her pet lamb.
[Picture to Color]
Color This Picture With Crayons / activity / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Page Boy; Mechanical Bird
- Synopsis
- Full-page, inside back cover illustration depicting the page boy carrying the Emperor's mechanical bird on a cushion.
[Mail Order Titles List]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ? (ad copy)
- Pencils
- ? (spot illustration)
- Inks
- ? (spot illustration)
- Colors
- ? (spot illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Full-page, back cover promo for mail order back titles from the Classics Illustrated Junior series. Spot illustration depicts front covers from the series.
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Table of Contents
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The Nightingale
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1.
[Dot-to-Dot Puzzle]
What Is It? -
2.
The Nightingale
The Nightingale -
3.
The Hare and the Tortoise
Aesop's Fables -
4.
The Moon
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5.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
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6.
[Picture to Color]
Color This Picture With Crayons -
7.
[Mail Order Titles List]
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