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The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable
(Picture Window Books, 2004)
This book is 6 x 8½ and has 24 pages. The illustrations were painted with gouache. The story is well told. Text and illustrations make for a lively telling of the fable. There is one new twist here. The owner, who ...
Aesop's Opposites: Interactive Aesop Fables
(Teaching and Learning Company, 2004)
This book for pupils in the first through third grades works off a good insight that fables often present opposed pairs. Thus the twenty-one fables here generally contrast pairs. The first three offerings are The Lion ...
El lobo con piel de oveja: Versión de la fábula de Esopo
(Picture Window Books, 2006)
This book is 6 x 8½ and has 24 pages. Though this is the sixth book I have in the Read-it! Readers series, it is the first in Spanish. The illustrations were created digitally. The story is well told. Text and illustrations ...
Aesop's Fables
(North-South Books, 2006)
This is the sixth version I have found of Lisbeth Zwerger's Aesop book. Her Aesop: 12 Fabeln appeared in 1989 as a large-format book. Two large English versions also appeared, apparently at the same time. There has been ...
The Lion and the Mouse: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable
(Picture Window Books, 2004)
This book is 6 x 8½ and has 24 pages. The illustrations were painted with gouache. The story is well told. Text and illustrations make for a lively telling of the fable. The mouse in this version wakes up from a nap ...
The Ant and the Grasshopper: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable
(Picture Window Books, 2004)
This book is 6 x 8½ and has 24 pages. The illustrations were painted with watercolor. The story is well told. Text and illustrations make for a lively telling of the fable. There is no ultimate resolution here. The ...
The Tortoise and the Hare: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable
(Picture Window Books, 2004)
This book is 6 x 8½ and has 24 pages. The illustrations were painted with watercolor. The story is well told. Text and illustrations make for a lively telling of the fable. The idea of the race comes from the tortoise. ...
Aesop's Fables
((CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform), 2015)
Here is another print-on-demand book in the form of a sturdy mid-sized paperback of 188 pages. This seems a good rendition of Townsend's texts, preceded by an interminable T of C and followed by a life of Aesop, a preface ...
De wolf en het lam en 10 andere fabels van Aesopus
(Uitgeverj J.H. Gottmer, 2009)
Here is a Dutch reprint of The Rabbit and the Turtle: Aesop's Fables Retold and Illustrated by Eric Carle, first printed in 1976 with a different cover. The information facing the title-page seems to indicate that some ...
Fabhalscéalta Aesóip
(An GumAn Gúm, 2004)
Here is the Gaelic translation of Usborne's 2003 edition of Watson and Price's original work of 1982. Except for the language, the book seems identical. Let me add some of my comments from there. Like the 2003 Aesop's ...