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The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: Based on the Fable Written by Aesop
(Reader's Digest Young Families, 2003)
Here is the more original version of a book published in 2006 in its series Famous Fables by the same publishers, Reader's Digest Young Families. This 2003 book is a fuller version of the story but lacks some of the added ...
Little by Little
(Golden Books Publishing Company, 2002)
Two crows find a pitcher of water only partially filled. One gets the bright idea to use pebbles. The other complains that it takes too long. The first perseveres. Mile 1 books like this feature easy words, fun rhythms ...
The Fox and the Crow Based on a Story by Aesop
(Usborne Pub LtdUsborne Publishing Ltd., 2007)
I have TH and GGE in this same series and I just ordered FS and SW. They all belong to First Reading books by Usborne. This is a sturdy book, about 8 x 5, containing 32 pages. This telling highlights the crow's responses ...
City Mouse and Country Mouse
(Quarto PublishingSt. Martin's Press, 1996)
First published in the USA by St. Martin's Press. This book comes with a kit for making the two mice. It can be viewed at http://aesop.creighton.edu/jcupub/soft_sculptures.htm. The soft-sculpture mice appear several ...
The Fox and the Stork Based on a Story by Aesop
(Usborne Pub LtdUsborne Publishing Ltd., 2007)
This book helps complete the series with FC, TH, SW, and GGE. This is a sturdy book, about 8 x 5, containing 32 pages. The story is well told. Pages 10-11 show stork's problem: Poor Stork! She couldn't eat a thing! ...
The Sun and the Wind Based on a Story by Aesop
(EDC Pub.Usborne Publishing Ltd., 2007)
This book helps complete the series with FC, TH, FS, and GGE. This is a sturdy book, about 8 x 5, containing 32 pages. The story is well told. The key in this telling comes on 21 when the sun says I win and the wind ...
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
(EDC]Usborne Publishing, 2007)
I noticed this book as I wandered around Learning Sprout Toys in Tacoma on a morning of visiting after a fable lecture at Puget Sound University. The story starts in the present but promptly shifts to the past. Pipin is ...
The Fox and the Grapes
(Magic Wagon, 2010)
This is a 32-page adaptation of FG. Mother fox urges son to go get food, like his brother. Fox rather believes that someone will bring him something to eat. His mother cautions that Nothing is sweeter than something you ...
The Ants and the Grasshopper
(Magic Wagon, 2010)
This is a 32-page adaptation of GA. That this is a creative adaptation of the fable is clear, if not sooner, on 4-5, where the ants above ground wear hard-hats and ants working under the earth wear miners' helmets with ...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
(Magic Wagon, 2010)
This is a 32-page adaptation of BW. Will Meugniot is, if anything, more expressive than the others working in this series. Typical of him are the huge number of sheep on 4-5 and the facial experssions of those sheep who ...