Rabbit and the Not-So-Big-Bad Wolf Michaël Escoffier, trans. from the French by Grace Maccarone, illus. by Kris Di Giacomo. Holiday House, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-2813-7.

Toward the end of Robert Zemeckis' 1988 animated/live- action mystery "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," a distraught Roger confronts the aptly named Judge Doom, who, it has become clear, set the rabbit ...

MOSCOW - He's been battered and humiliated for more than 40 years, but the wolf in a classic Russian animated cartoon has skirted the indignity of falling victim to a new law.