Forty Fantastically Funny Fables is forty fables for the whole family! And they’re funny!
This audio collection was written, performed in different voices, and fully produced with sound effects and music—in the style of the Jay Ward cartoons by Daws Butler (Yogi Bear) protege Joe Bevilacqua.
Stories in this set:
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Laughing Giraffe, A Whale Tale, The Birds who Couldn’t Fly, Mr. Bobble’s Re-sewed Wheat, A Country Boy Goes to the City, The Curious Jellyfish, The Possum who Wouldn’t Play Possum, The Snail Race, The Turtle who was Never Satisfied, The Little Girl and the Mean Old Tree, The Pig with a Straight Tail, The Biggest Giant of All, Little Robin Lost, A Silly Silly King, Mr. Arbuthnot Meets the Mean Magician, Mr. Rabbit’s Fantastic Warren, The Tightrope Waddling Duck, Such a Lovely Vegetable Patch, Aliens Underwater, A Penguin, Reindeer and Fox, The Tale of a Lizard’s Tail, The Bumbling Bee, A Forgetful Pachyderm, A Very Messy Prince, When Pelican Fooled the Hawk, The Tortoise and the Mole, The Egotistical Tiger. Mr. Magpie Lost his Coin, Fun with the Sun, Margery Dickerson, The Turtle’s Still Not Satisfied, The Sleepwalking Burglar, A Push-Over Penguin, Meet Donnie and Wootsy, Mr. Horsefly’s Post Office, Fox Bets on Penguin, Lil Ol’ The Muddiest Possum, Herman Haha Goes Bird Watching, Rod Meets Santa.
Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is a public radio producer and radio theater dramatist. However, his career has taken him into every aspect of show business, including stage, film, and television as a producer, director, writer, author, actor, journalist, documentarian, and even cartoonist. He is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City.