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Aesop's Fables
(Pavilion Children's Books: Avona Books Company, 2009)
This new Aesop is big and bold. Its cover has the texture of leather. Its art is made chiefly of ink-blots skillfully rendered as various creatures. Among the best of the illustrations are the peacock on 16, FG on 22, ...
Aesop's Fables with Vocabulary, Notes, and References to Goodwin's and Hadley's Grammars
(John Allyn Publisher,, 1879)
Preceded by Talks on the Natural Method. This is a curious book. First, I am surprised that I have not run into it before, because I have had my eye out for books that use Aesop to teach. This book does exactly that. ...
Three Hundred and Fifty Aesop's Fables
(Donohue Henneberry & Co.,, 1885)
I have a copy of this book from Keith Pajot of Renaissance, which I found in 1990. Now, twenty-one years later, I find another copy. I am trying to keep any book in the collection which has the slightest difference from ...
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables
(George Routledge and Sons, 1885)
This copy is nearly identical with one I had found at Bargain Bookstore, San Diego, in 1993. As I note there, many other versions have 50, not 114, illustrations. Unlike some similar versions from Routledge, this -- like ...
A Crow in Borrowed Feathers/The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf!'
(Joie Inc.Peter Haddock, 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. This version adds a nymph to the crow and feathers story and makes ...
A Cowardly Bat/A Donkey and a Foolish Wolf/A Crow that was Tricked
(Joie Inc.,Peter Haddock, 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 moral for A Donkey and a ...
A Donkey in Lion's Disguise/A Wolf and a Lamb/The Bear and the Travelers
(Peter Haddock, 1989)
The raccoon discovers the lion-clad donkey. The lamb needs time to digest. The moral works from the lamb, not the wolf; I think that is a bad choice. One traveler is so fat that he cannot climb the tree. Good lively ...
The North Wind and the Sun/A Lion and a Mosquito/An Eagle and a Crow
(Peter Haddock, 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 Mouse's Gratitude/The Foolish Tiger and the Foolish Leopard/Outsmarting the Cat
(Peter Haddock, 1989)
The mouse is spared because she has seven children. The final story (BC) has a good moral: What you cannot do yourself, do not expect others to do. Good lively cartoon work in the Disney tradition. All in this series ...
Country Mouse and Town Mouse/The Monkey King
(Peter Haddock, 1989)
Here a hunter (Black African) gets the monkey king. 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 ...