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The Fox and the Grapes
(Society for Visual Education, 1980)
Nice simple big pictures, one to a page. This fox wears a coat and cap. At one point in his leaping he touches the grapes. He tries to leap at them ten times. The fox admits at the end that the grapes look and smell ...
The Fox and the Crow
(Society for Visual Education, 1980)
Nice simple big pictures, one to a page. This fox does the flattery of the female crow well. She even wears a hat to identify her sex.) He starts with compliments on general beauty and feathers, and then moves on to the ...
The Ready Readers Theater presents Aesop's Fables
(Copycat Press, 1989)
This is a book or reproducible pages for teachers to use with primary classes. Each of seven fables is given six or seven pages. The pages regularly include cut-outs for faces. The booklet's suggestion is that the teacher ...
Ten Best-Loved Aesop's Fables
(Educational Insights, 1983)
For use with an excellent tape. The stories are well told, each with one simple colored picture. There are many changes from traditional stories: How can the crow hold an apple in his beak and eat it at the same time? ...
My Big FunThinker Book of Fun with Fables.
(Educational Insights, 1983)
An activities book to accompany the tape and Ten Best-Loved Aesop's Fables (1983). Color, connect the dots, escape the maze, color by numbers, and find the hidden pictures. The art is simple.
A Mouse's Gratitude/The Foolish Tiger and the Foolish Leopard/Outsmarting the Cat
(Joie, 1989)
The mouse is spared because she has seven children. The final story about belling the cat has a good moral: What you cannot do yourself, do not expect others to do. Good lively cartoon work in the Disney tradition. A ...
The North Wind and the Sun/A Lion and a Mosquito/An Eagle and a Crow
(Joie, 1989)
Good lively cartoon work in the Disney tradition. The righthand pages are full illustrations, while the left present the text with one telling symbol. The English is sometimes a little off. The morals sometimes miss the ...
A Cowardly Bat/A Donkey and a Foolish Wolf/A Crow that was Tricked
(Joie, 1989)
The battle between the birds and the animals is set in Africa and gets detailed description. The monkeys wear coconuts and ride elephants! Good lively cartoon work in the Disney tradition. The middle story's moral misses ...
Ants and Grasshoppers/Three Oxen and a Lion
(Joie, 1989)
Here there are three grasshoppers instead of the usual one. The ant's last word is Just go on singing now. The lion--in the African savanna--gets the oxen arguing among themselves. Good lively cartoon work in the Disney ...
A Mouse's Wedding/A Fox and Grapes/An Ant and a Dove
(Joie, 1989)
Good lively cartoon work in the Disney tradition; here the first story has particularly good illustrations. A find in my one day in Singapore!