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Mille et une Histoires: les Renards
(Fleurus Presse, 2002)
"This is the February, 2002, number of a subscription pamphlet for young people and their parents. It contains four fox stories. From "Roman de Renard" comes the fable about the tail of Ysengrim. From "Kamchatka" comes ...
Balinese Children's Favorite Stories
(Periplus, 2001)
"The introduction to this surprising book admits that some of the stories here come from Aesop, who some are reported to believe was a Phrygian slave of the Romans (4). The other main source here is the "Panchatantra." ...
A Brief History of Fables: From Aesop to Flash Fiction
(Hesperus Press, 2011)
"I have returned to this book not regarding that I had already catalogued it without looking into it. This is not the first time that this has happened: too many books and too many years! I will start with my more recent ...
Les Philo-Fables
(Albin Michel, 2003)
"Amazon's summary is a good start: "Les philo-fables, ce sont des fables simples et riches de sens tirées de la philosophie occidentale, de la mythologie et des sagesses d'Orient. 60 fables accompagnées de questions, de ...
Fables amères de tout petits riens
(Vents d'Ouest, 2010)
"The back of this book of graphic short stories -- short stories presented in pictures with short dialogue -- has this short but accurate description: "…incidents dérisoires, broutilles ordinaires, terribles futilités…" ...
Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World
(W.W. Norton, 2006)
"This book is written in the wake of 9/11. It offers lots of helpful story perspectives on dealing with fear in a frightening world. I am happy that several fables make their way into this collection. I may have missed ...
Die schõnsten Fabeln von Äsop bis Hey
(Anaconda Verlag, 2013)
"This book reprints "Das grosse Fabelbuch, Für die Jugend ausgewählt von Walter Heichen," published by Weichert in Berlin about 1905. Several colored illustrations were dropped. Some 25 authors are included, including a ...
Aesopic Voices: Re-framing Truth through Concealed Ways of Presentation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011)
"The front cover of the dust jacket presents this book's challenge well: Velasquez's Aesop stands in the hallway of a prison. What a wide-ranging book! It finds the "Aesopic" in so many genres! Let me quote the back of ...
Aesop's Fables, Vol. II (Chinese)
(Acme Book Co., Ltd., 2000)
"Here is a mysterious set of three books, found too long after I had acquired them. I have pieced together some information from the web. I know that they have one ISBN number for the whole set (957-492-375-4) and one ...
Aesop's Fables, Vol. III (Chinese)
(Acme Book Co., Ltd., 2000)
"Here is a mysterious set of three books, found too long after I had acquired them. I have pieced together some information from the web. I know that they have one ISBN number for the whole set (957-492-375-4) and one ...