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Le Renard et le Corbeau
(Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1950)
This 4¾" x 6½" pamphlet is a song version of FC with a one-page musical score, followed by alternating pairs of pages. The first, third and fifth pair present colored full-page illustrations of the chronology of the story. ...
Les fables et la vie d'Esope le Phrygien. Avec le sens moral en quatre vers. Traduites du Grec, dédiées à la jeunesse
(Chez les Frères Deckherr, 1814)
Here is a hardy paperbound book of 144 pages, including 74 rectangular illustrations, regularly 2½" x 1½". There are also occasional printer's designs. Here is the bookseller's description: "In-12 broché, 144 pages. Orné ...
Wie die Maus den Loewen rettete
(Artemis Verlag, 1979)
Here is a second copy of this excellent book. Very well done, with beautiful detailed illustrations. A good example of contemporary work with a single fable (and in another language).
Treasury of Aesop's Fables
(Om Kidz: Om Books International, 2016)
Here is a large (9¾" x 10¾") paperbound version of six fables listed on the back cover: BC, BS, FC, LM, SW, and TB. There is no title-page; the book begins immediately with the title-page for BC. Each story is 16 pages ...
Fables de La Fontaine
(Éditions du Pélican Blanc, 1960)
Here is an extra copy of this book, found in a happy day of bookfinding in Strasbourg. A happy find, as was true of the first copy. These are some of the best simple colored-art responses to La Fontaine that I have seen ...
La Liebre y la Tortuga
(Ediciones Izar, 1994)
This is a twelve-page pamphlet with prose text and frequent cartoon presentations. Other characters show up beside the path, as is clear in the large illustration across the two central pages. 6" x 8½". The other five ...
Wonder Movies
(Merrimack Publishing Corporation, 1986)
The six "wonder movies" here are created by successive folding of right-hand pages to create a new scene with a rhyming – or almost rhyming – couplet at the bottom of the newly revealed section of the scene. Am I stretching ...
La Hormiga y la Cigarra
(Ediciones Saldaña; Florida Products, 1999)
Here is a die-cut pamphlet of 8 pages with a prose text. This grasshopper not only plays and sings but he also dances. And it is a "he" despite the Spanish feminine. The ant finds the grasshopper desperate out in the ...
La Liebre y la Tortuga
(Ediciones Saldaña; Florida Products, 1999)
Here is a die-cut pamphlet of 8 pages with a prose text. There is plenty of sympathy for the "poor" tortoise with his "carácter abierto y cortés." His feet do not even do a good job of helping him get up when he falls ...
Highlights for Children, November, 1976
(Highlights for Children, 1976)
This 8.5" x 11" magazine includes " A Tall Tale: The Boasting Traveler" as part of "For Wee Folks" (9). It is not acknowledged as a fable, but it does include the telltale specific reference to Rhodes. There is no ...