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The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: A Tale about Appearances
(Reader's Digest Young Families, 2006)
This story represents a transformation of the traditional Aesopic fable. First, this version develops the beginning by inserting three phases taken from two fairy tales and a fable. This wolf sees Little Red walking along ...
The Miller and the Donkey: A Tale about Thinking for Yourself
(Reader's Digest Young Families, 2006)
This is a favorite fable, and I am happy to see it included in this collection. Both text and illustration here are well done. The early story sets the miller up to look older than he is and to have his twelve-year-old ...
The Rooster and the Fox: A Tale about Being Clever
(Reader's Digest Young Families, 2006)
This is not the simple Aesopic fable about universal peace and a sighting of dogs in the distance. This rooster is the protector of the henhouse. The story's first phase has the rooster tricking the fox into shutting the ...
The Crow and the Pitcher: A Tale about Problem Solving
(Reader's Digest Young Families, 2007)
Good subtitle! Yes, this fable is about problem-solving. In this version, we find ourselves in a parched desert. There is a pitcher party buried in the sand. Crow and Zebra are both thirsty. Crow realizes that tipping ...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A Tale about Telling the Truth
(Reader's Digest Young Families, 2006)
This book tells the BW story unusually well. Julian's father needs to go away for three days and offers to get Julian help tending the sheep on this his first turn at the task, but the boy says that he does not need help. ...
The Tortoise and the Hare: A Tale about Determination
(Reader's Digest Young Families, 2006)
Here is a twenty-page children's picture book that extends onto its back endpaper with tips for parents, including strategies, discussion questions, and activities that grow out of the story. The version of TH here has ...
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 ...
The Town Mouse & the Country Mouse: An Aesop Fable
(Michael Neugebauer Pub. Ltd.Michael Neugebauer Publishing, 2011)
I know and love Imai's work from her 2012 German 12 Fabeln von Aesop, done also in English in 2013. This book of just one fable does not disappoint. Its simplicity echoes the good of the Country Mouse's life. Country ...
The Milk Maid and the Milk Pail
(The Child's World: The Peterson Publishing Company, 2011)
This sturdy hard-cover book announces the moral of its fable not only on the cover but on its first story page. This version for the Americas makes a point that the maid had learned to carry the pail by balancing it on ...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
(The Child's World: The Peterson Publishing Company, 2011)
This sturdy hard-cover book announces the moral of its fable not only on the cover but on its first story page. This version has the boy watching sheep near a dark forest. It was lonely and boring watching sheep all day ...