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La orca gigante
(Arte Gráfico Editorial Argentino: EME Marketing Editorial: Clarinx, 2012)
"Here is booklet #20 out of a series of twenty-seven. Each booklet of sixteen pages contains three fables. The title fable tells of Ursula the Whale who wipes out whole cities of fish with a swish of her giant tail. She ...
La Cebrita Testaruda
(Arte Gráfico Editorial Argentino: EME Marketing Editorial: Clarinx, 2012)
"Here is booklet #16 out of a series of twenty-seven. Each booklet of sixteen pages contains three fables. The title-fable transforms an Aesopic fable in which a lion runs away from a rooster. Then a donkey chases the ...
El pulpo inseguro
(Arte Gráfico Editorial Argentino: EME Marketing Editorial: Clarinx, 2012)
"Here is booklet #17 out of a series of twenty-seven. Each booklet of sixteen pages contains three fables. The title-fable has a squid complaining of having too many legs until a crab wishes he had more legs, for example, ...
La hiena y el cóndor gritón
(Arte Gráfico Editorial Argentino: EME Marketing Editorial: Clarinx, 2012)
"Here is booklet #25 out of a series of twenty-seven. Each booklet of sixteen pages contains three fables. "La hiena y el cóndor gritón" gives FC new characters. The condor's piece of meat falls into the hands of the ...
The Nun's Priest's Tale of Chaucer
(Allen and Richard Lane, 1950)
This is a beautiful limited edition book. It impresses me particularly for its title-page art: a glorious presentation of the two main characters in red, gold, and black. The flutter of feathers around the title is perfect ...
Peace Tales: World Folktales to Talk About
(Linnet Books: The Shoe String Press, Inc., 1992)
"This book works for peacemaking by telling stories and asking readers to think and talk about them. There is probably something fable-like in each of the 37 stories. I notice eight that are more properly fables. They ...
One Hundred More Wisdom Stories
(Lion Hudson, 2013)
"This book presents one hundred numbered short wisdom stories. I am a bit surprised to find only two fables among them, but perhaps that discovery confirms my sense that parables probe our depths while fables challenge ...
Jean de La Fontaine dans l'univers des arts: Richesses inconnues et inédites du Musée Jean de La Fontaine à Château-Thierry
(Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1991)
"This booklet of some 92 pages gives first a history of the La Fontaine Museum in Château-Thierry, secondly of the house in which Jean de La Fontaine was born and raised, and thirdly of La Fontaine's place overall in the ...
Old Fables Retold
(E.J. Arnold & Son, 1956)
"This primary school reader offers three fables on 24 pages: "The Donkey and the Lion"; "The Horse and the Fox"; and "The Crow and the Snake." The first is a surprise to me. An imported donkey meets a lion in Africa and ...
Esop Basni: Mythoi Aisopeioi
(Jantarniy Skaz, 1999)
"It has been fun digging into this very small (3½" x 4") but sturdy book. Gasparov's translations have already found a place once in this collection, in a 2003 edition by Eksmo with the illustrations of Rackham. Here the ...