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The Hare and the Tortoise Based on a Story by Aesop
(EDC PublishingUsborne Publishing Ltd., 2007)
This is my first find in a series of -- apparently -- sixteen First Reading books by Usborne including three fables. All sixteen are pictured on the endpapers. I have ordered TMCM and GGE from the same series. This is ...
Bat's Big Game
(Albert Whitman and Company, 2008)
This happens to be the six-thousandth book in the collection. There is a short statement on the verso of the title-page about the history of this story. It begins with Aesop and Motif B261.1 in Stith Thompson. The animals ...
The Fox and the Crow
(Franklin Watts, 2009)
This version of FC is lively and well illustrated. One great double-page near the center of the book pictures the vain crow (13). Its text is Crow had always thought she was beautiful. The fox gobbles up the food and ...
Die Schildkröte und der Hase
(Xenos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998)
A stop in Wolfenbüttel to find a banana across from the train stop yielded this booklet and a parallel little volume! It seems not to be related to the one other sound-making fable book I am aware of having, The Tortoise ...
La Tortuga y la Liebre: Una Fábula de Esopo: The Tortoise and the Hare: An Aesop's Fable
(Frances Lincoln Children's BooksFrances Lincoln Limited, 2001)
This is my third bilingual presentation of this fable by the same people, along with one just in English. The other two combine English with French and Polish respectively. This is a landscape-formatted, unpaginated, ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
The Tortoise & the Hare
(Little, Brown and Company, 2013)
Pinkney's art is consistent in its style. And his approach to the story here is excellent. One is surprised to move through the book and find very little text. There is only, part by part, sometimes repeated, always ...