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The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: Based on the Fable Written by Aesop
(Reader's Digest Young Families, 2003)
Here is the more original version of a book published in 2006 in its series Famous Fables by the same publishers, Reader's Digest Young Families. This 2003 book is a fuller version of the story but lacks some of the added ...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A Tale of Sincerity
(Publications International Ltd.,, 2002)
Each pair of pages presents one full page of text and one of colored illustration. This version of BW is particularly well told. The boy had never seen a wolf; he even wondered if they existed at all. He had tried to ...
The Contest Between the Sun and the Wind: An Aesop's Fable
(August House Little Folk, 2008)
I have several other texts done by Heather Forest, but I believe that this is both my first book by Susan Gaber and my first book published in 2008. It follows the correct version of the fable when it has the sun say Let ...
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 ...
The Fox and the Grapes
(The Child's World: The Peterson Publishing Company, 2011)
This title represents the third of the collection of thirteen that I have been able to find. This sturdy hard-cover book not only announces the moral of its fable on the cover but gives it the whole first story page. ...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf!
(Advance Publishing, 2014)
The back cover advertises this and the other books of this series as award-winning motivational character-building picture books. The overall series, Sommer-Time Story Series, has won over forty national awards. The ...
The Fox and the Stork: A Fable by Aesop
(North-South Books, 2003)
This is an enchanting edition in the tradition I have come to expect from North-South. It was first published in Switzerland as Fuchs und Storch. The textures throughout are very soft. Fox wears an apron as he prepares ...
The Lion & the Mouse
(Little Brown and Co. Books for Young Readers,Little, Brown and Company, 2009)
I already list a copy of the first printing that I received as a gift. This copy, from the fourth printing, adds a Caldecott Medal Award gold seal on the front dust-jacket. As I wrote there, my form lists Pinkney as the ...
The Lion & the Mouse
(Little Brown and Co. Books for Young Readers,Little, Brown and Company, 2009)
Through some error, I purchased another copy of this book. I already had copies of the first and fourth printings. I was ready to dismiss this copy as identical with the latter when I started to notice little differences. ...
The Really Groovy Story of the Tortoise and the Hare
(Albert Whitman & Company, 2011)
Here is another large-format children's book that announces its zest with its catchy title. The book sustains the energy. The text is rhyming rap. Deep inside the city/ was a hip and happy hare./ He was zippy, sometimes ...