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Aesop's Fable of The Miller, His Son and Their Ass
(Incline Press, 2006)
Here is a gorgeous private-press book that I happened upon during a New Year's visit to Bartleby's. The book's format is huge: 15 x 11½. The story is well told. The miller's repeated refrain is They are right! The son ...
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: An Aesop Fable Retold & Illustrated
(Templar Books/Candlewick Press, 2012)
Helen Ward is giving herself generously to fables! Unwitting Wisdom, King of the Birds, The Rooster and the Fox, and The Hare and the Tortoise precede this book. Ward sets the story at Christmas time in New York in the ...
Anthony Ant y Grady Grasshopper
(Harlin Jacque Publications, 2002)
The title-page contuinues Una Nueva Versión de La Fábula de Esopo: La Hormiga y el Saltamontes. Anthony is on roller-skates. Page 5 offers a view of him in action that is something like an Eadweard Muybridge series of ...
The Wind and the Sun: Aesop's Fables Retold
(Angus & Robertson, 1951)
In my experience, it is unusual that, as here, the sun starts the argument. The story's form is the poorer version: Whichever one of us can make this poor traveller take off his coat shall be declared the stronger, suggests ...
The eagle & the fox & the fox and the eagle: two semantically symmetrical versions followed by a revised application
(Gaberbocchus Press Limited, 1949)
This wild and wonderful presentation had been on my want list since I saw it in the Heffelfinger Collection in Minneapolis. Princeton Antiques' notice to me was the first time I had heard that it was available. Though ...
The Crow and the Pitcher
(Dominie Press, Inc., 1999)
This is a better copy of the fifth printing. I will leave both copies in the collection. Here is the sixth book of this series of ten. Pearson Learning Group is not mentioned, and the publisher's address is Carlsbad, ...
The Miller Who Tried to Please Everyone
(Dominie Press, Inc., 1999)
Here is the tenth book of this series of ten. Pearson Learning Group is not mentioned, and the publisher's address is Carlsbad, CA. The word count is 560. Sixteen pages. One of the best illustrations in this version ...
The Crow and the Pitcher
(Dominie Press, Inc., 1999)
Here is the sixth book of this series of ten. Pearson Learning Group is not mentioned, and the publisher's address is Carlsbad, CA. The word count is 265. Sixteen pages. This crow repeats several times I must have water ...
The Farmer and His Two Lazy Sons
(Dominie Press, Inc., 1999)
Here is the ninth book of this series of ten. Pearson Learning Group is not mentioned, and the publisher's address is Carlsbad, CA. The word count is 314. Sixteen pages. One of the best illustrations in this version ...
The Lion and the Mouse
(Dominie Press, Inc., 1999)
Here is the fourth book of this series of ten. Pearson Learning Group is not mentioned, and the publisher's address is Carlsbad, CA. The word count is 499. Sixteen pages. The interchange between lion and caught mouse ...