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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 ...
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 Fox and the Grapes
(Magic Wagon, 2010)
This is a 32-page adaptation of FG. Mother fox urges son to go get food, like his brother. Fox rather believes that someone will bring him something to eat. His mother cautions that Nothing is sweeter than something you ...
The Ants and the Grasshopper
(Magic Wagon, 2010)
This is a 32-page adaptation of GA. That this is a creative adaptation of the fable is clear, if not sooner, on 4-5, where the ants above ground wear hard-hats and ants working under the earth wear miners' helmets with ...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
(Magic Wagon, 2010)
This is a 32-page adaptation of BW. Will Meugniot is, if anything, more expressive than the others working in this series. Typical of him are the huge number of sheep on 4-5 and the facial experssions of those sheep who ...
The Tortoise and the Hare
(Magic Wagon, 2010)
This is a 32-page adaptation of TH. The hare here is rather human and certainly aggressive. You're the slowest thing I've ever seen! he says to the tortoise. You shouldn't make fun of me, the tortoise responds. When ...
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
(Magic Wagon, 2010)
This is a 32-page adaptation of TMCM. The title on the book's cover spells the last two words with crooked boards to suggest the difference between country and town life. So does their clothing, starting on the cover. ...
The Lion and the Mouse
(Magic Wagon, 2010)
This is a 32-page adaptation of LM. This version is unusual in that the bored mouse sees the sleeping lion. In many versions he has no idea that he is running over a lion. The mouse decided it would be fun to surf down ...