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Perseverance: The Tortoise and the Hare
(Publications International, Ltd., 2000)
Each pair of pages in this sixteen-page booklet presents one full page of text and one of colored illustration. Fast hare is always darting about, while tortoise takes his time and loves to paint pictures of nature around ...
Cooperation: Stone Soup
(Publications International, Ltd., 2000)
Each pair of pages presents one full page of text and one of colored illustration. The picture of the cow maid holding her mop at the farmhouse's half-door is too good to miss! This cook/traveler proclaims from the start ...
Honesty: The Honest Woodcutter
(Publications International, Ltd., 2000)
Each pair of pages presents one full page of text and one of colored illustration. The woodcutter here is perhaps a beaver, but he still uses an axe. A water sprite makes the usual triple retrieval. After selling the ...
The Tortoise or the Hare
(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010)
About seven years earlier, Toni and Slade Morrison did three books of fables for Scribner's, all beginning with the question Who's Got Game? Their artist in all three of those was Pascal LeMaitre. Now here is a new ...
El ruiseñor: The Nightingale
(Scholastic, Inc., 2007)
This is a 24-page pamphlet 8 square. Its left-hand pages present each a sentence in Spanish and English. The right-hand pages present lively full-page colored illustrations. After the emperor has thrilled to the music ...
La lechera: The Milkmaid
(Scholastic, 2005)
This is a 24-page pamphlet 8 square. Its left-hand pages present each a sentence in Spanish and English. The right-hand pages present lively full-page colored illustrations. Piérola has fun with the story from the ...
Rabbit and Turtle Go to School/Conejo y Tortuga van a la escuela
(Sandpiper: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
This is a fine reader for little kids beginning their reading of stories. Rabbit goes by foot, while Turtle takes the bus. Rabbit's big mistake is stopping for a snack along the way, perhaps because he sees that the bus ...
Der Löwe und das Mäuschen: Nach einer Fabel von Aesop
(NordSüd, 2011)
I visited Heidelberg early and late in this trip to Europe. During the early stop, I came by Hassbecker's but found nothing. The woman who has always been so friendly and helpful said that she would look for me and that ...
The Hare and the Tortoise
(Franklin Watts, 2009)
Here is a new series from Blackwell's containing maybe ten titles, about six of which are fables. I just ordered the other four fable editions in paperback from the publisher. The story itself runs from 3 through 21 with ...
Fussy Heron: A Fable by La Fontaine
(Harcourt Achieve, 2007)
Originally published (in 1957?) by Cengage Learning, Australia. This is a 16-page pamphlet featuring double-page spreads of remarkably detailed colored illustrations. This version stresses the vanity of the heron, who ...