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Aesop's Fables
(University of Washington Press, 1997)
Windmill Books originally published Lawrence's ink-on-paper illustrations for eighteen fables in 1970 (see my comments there), but he had done twenty-three. Now they are all presented here. Do not miss the fine frog ...
Aesop's Fables: The Lion and the Mouse & Other Fables
(Paradise Press, Inc. By arrangement with Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc. ©1995, 1997 Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc., 1997)
The endpapers for all four volumes in this set contain the same four designs, one for each book's title-story. This volume contains LM, FK, BW, and DM. The mouse is playful and apparently knows what he is doing when ...
Aesop's Fables: The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs & Other Fables
(Paradise Press, Inc. By arrangement with Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc. ©1995, 1997 Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc., 1997)
The endpapers for all four volumes in this set contain the same four designs, one for each book's title-story. This volume contains GGE, BC, MSA, and BF. The couple in GGE spend all their profits immediately after getting ...
Aesop's Fables: The Fox and the Grapes and Other Fables
(Paradise Press, Inc. By arrangement with Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc. ©1995, 1997 Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc., 1997)
The endpapers for all four volumes in this set contain the same four designs, one for each book's title-story. This volume contains FG, GA, DS, and WSC. This may be the first fox I have heard saying that the grapes are ...
Aesop's Fables: The Hare and the Tortoise and Other Fables
(Paradise Press, Inc. By arrangement with Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc. ©1995, 1997 Ottenheimer Publishers, Inc., 1997)
The endpapers for all four volumes in this set contain the same four designs, one for each book's title-story. This volume contains TH, TMCM, The Farmer's Daughter (MM), and FC. The hare plans to take a nap. TMCM at ...
Aesop's Fables: The Vain Crow and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of five fables. In BF, King Lion wants to appoint a Chief Minister, and that desire grounds the competition. The pictures never show the crow with more than one feather, although the text ...
Aesop's Fables: The Donkey and His Shadow and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of six fables. The cover picture and the picture one page later for the first story are almost exactly the same in design, but the colors of the clothes change dramatically. In The Snake ...
Aesop's Fables: The Fox and the Lion and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of six fables. In The Fox and the Lion, the fox not only loses his fear of the lion, but the latter extends his paw in friendship. The picture of the fox extending her paw may be the most ...
Aesop's Fables: The Thirsty Crow and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of four fables. The crow in CP sweats a great deal. The broken pot gets so full that the water eventually leaks down the side! Thie groaning mountain about to give birth has a human head ...
Aesop's Fables: The Monkey and the Two Cats and other stories
(Dreamland Publications, 1997)
This is an 8½ x 11 presentation of four fables, two of which come from the standard Aesopic corpus. These are The Monkey and the Two Cats and The Widow and the Two Maidens. The booklet's best presentation is of The Hermit ...