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Lamb Chop's Fables: The Boat Contest, Featuring Aesop's The Lion and the Mouse.
(Time-Life Books, 1993)
Here is a copy of the second printing of this book. It seems otherwise identical with the first printing already in the collection. Part of a set (for $39.95) including a Lamb Chop puppet, wrapping paper, greeting card, ...
Aesop's Fables With a Life of Aesop
(The University Press of KentuckyUniversity of Kentucky Press, 1993)
An excellent book and a valuable resource. A good introduction leads up to placing Hurus' book in history. Good comments on the history and traditions. Rinuccio translated Planudes from Greek into Latin in about 1450. ...
Aesop's Fables
(PenguinPuffin Books, 1993)
A reprint in reduced dimensions of the lavish, beautiful first edition of 1981. Though the big format suits Holder's art better, the illustrations here are surprisingly sharp for a smaller work that is a reprint. Worth ...
Lamb Chop's Fables: The Boat Contest, Featuring Aesop's The Lion and the Mouse.
(Time-Life Books, 1993)
Part of a set (for $39.95) including a Lamb Chop puppet, wrapping paper, greeting card, Lamb Chop's Sing-Along, Play-Along cassette, and Lamb Chop's Jump into the Story videotape. The LM story fits well into the situation ...
Aesop's Fable: The Tortoise and the Hare
(Living BooksRandom House/Broderbund Company, 1993)
This book is almost identical with another in the collection. Perhaps it represents a later printing when it was placed in a series with other books. The front cover adds Living Books Presents in the upper left corner, ...
The Stork and the Fox
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Good, lively art in a well-told story. The fox is a practical joker. Ms. Stork buys a new dress for the occasion and shows off her long neck with the strands of a pearl necklace. Invited in turn, Mr. Fox answers I'm ...
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Good, lively art in a well-told story. The city mouse stays a few days in the country before he starts complaining. In the city, he reclines wonderfully in a cake stand. At the end there is a clever introduction to ...
The Cat and the Mice
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Good, lively art in a well-told story. The book starts the story with a wonderful picture of the large family of mice not peaceful and happy. There is a wealth of anthropomorphic detail here in the description of the ...
The Grasshopper and the Ant
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Good, lively art in a dramatic story. Lots of sympathy goes here to the ant, apparently a single parent, who works hard for her children. Her home is a cozy paradise in winter, stocked with the food she has gathered and ...
The Fox and the Crow
(Henry Holt, 1993)
Particularly good, lively art. The best illustrations may be those of the crow singing and of the fox ready to catch the cheese with open jaws. The crow here is vain and conceited from the first line on. He goes right ...