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Aesop's Fables
(Magic Wagon: ABDO Group, 2012)
There are forty-three chapters in this 5¾ x 8 book, each presenting an Aesopic fable. About a quarter of the fables are illustrated with either a full page or a half-page black-and-white illustration. I am frankly surprised ...
Four Fables from Aesop
(The Hayloft Press, 2001)
How nice to get this book almost hot off the presses! I commend the authors for researching their introduction carefully and for using Perry numbers to identify the four fables they offer. The introduction notes some ...
The Lion and the Mouse: An Aesop Fable Retold and Illustrated by Bernadette Watts
(North-South Books, 2000)
©2000 by Nord-Süd Verlag AG, Gossau Zürich, and first published in Switzerland under the title Der Löwe und die Maus. This lovely oversized edition starts in a new way: a playful lion cub is awakened by a mouse scampering ...
The Fox and the Grapes
(The Child's World: The Peterson Publishing Company, 2011)
This title represents the third of the collection of thirteen that I have been able to find. This sturdy hard-cover book not only announces the moral of its fable on the cover but gives it the whole first story page. ...
Usborne Illustrated Stories from Aesop
(EDC PublishingUsborne Publishing, 2013)
I visited this monthly flea-market as a part of a visit with my cousin Barb, and there in the middle of the market was an Usborne representative selling books at non-flea-market prices. I have enjoyed Usborne books for a ...
Aesop's Fables
(Dial Books for Young Readers: Penguin Young Readers GroupPenguin Group, 2003)
Here is a slightly smaller version in a special collection of a book already in the collection. The cover and the verso of the title-page proclaim this book as part of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. This copy has ...
Aesop Re-visited
(F. Watson, 2013)
The seller's blurb has this to say: 12.5 x 6; ten pages including pastedowns. Original text and images. Handprinted linoleum cuts on Rives paper. Bound in black paper wraps with cut-out star tipped on the front cover. ...
Aesop's Fables
(Penguin: PearsonPuffin, 2013)
As the verso of the title-page makes clear, this book has a rich history. It was first published by Penguin in 1954, with a new edition in 1964. Puffin published it in 1993. This new Puffin edition does, as far as I can ...
Belling the Cat: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable
(Picture Window Books, 2004)
This book is 6 x 8½ and has 24 pages. The illustrations were prepared digitally. The same good illustration is offered here on the front cover, the title-page, and the first page of text. In it, the cat is peering into ...
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable
(Picture Window Books, 2004)
This book is 6 x 8½ and has 24 pages. The illustrations were prepared digitally. Silverman again does a good job with the animals' facial expressions. There is a new element here at the city banquet: The country mosue ...