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The Hare and the Frogs
(The Bodley Head, 1978)
This booklet takes the hare through a number of attempted escapes from danger. He runs from the storm, a deer, a bird, a hedgehog (an army of swords and daggers, the hare cries), a bull, a ram, a fox, a hyena, a rooster, ...
Aesop's Fables: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse & The Boy Who Cried Wolf
(Modern Publishing: Unisystems, Inc., 1994)
Here is a new presentation of the same art that Hirata used in 1989 for his Joie set. The art here is certainly superior in presentation to the Peter Haddock series (1989?). It is darker than Joie's art, sometimes stronger ...
The Hare and the Tortoise
(Houghton Mifflin, 1996)
What a treasure! This sideways book is an enchanting expansion of TH, with Jones' special feature of a peep hole in the text pages between full-page illustrations. The peep hole works very effectively spotlighting elements ...
Eric Carle's Treasury of Classic Stories for Children.
(Scholastic, 1988)
As far as I can tell, there is nothing new here in fables; Carle is drawing on his 1980 Twelve Tales from Aesop. The one story from there that is dropped here is The Birds, the Beasts and the Bat. I liked Carle's work ...
The Fables of Aesop
(Golden Cocker PressThe Golden cockerel press, 1926)
The text is taken from L'Estrange's 1692 edition. The book presents 201 fables, with twelve of Fiennes' wood engravings plus a cockerel on the colophon page (after 94). The wood-engravings are: CJ (1), FK (11, one of ...
Aesop's Fables: A Collection of Tales for Children.
(Bookmart Limited, 1995)
Large-format book presenting sixteen fables in strong colors in a variety of sizes and shapes. The frontispiece of FG gives a sense of the artist's flair for color and delight in minute rendering of elements like fur. ...
Aesop's Fables
(Wordsworth ClassicsWordsworth Editions Ltd, 1912)
Surprisingly, this paperback that costs only $1.44 includes apparently all the Jones texts and all the black-and-white Rackham illustrations. What a bargain! A suite like MSA's silhouettes (130-31) here occurs together ...
Aesop's Fables.
(J.H. Sears & Company, 1920)
This little book brims with questions. First, do I not recognize these covers of a boy and girl, respectively, reading? Next, how does this text expand the usual set of texts derived from Rundell (sometimes labelled ...
The Tortoise and the Hare
(Whitmanprinted in the U.S.A. by Western Printing and Lithographing Company, 1963)
In the same series with my 1961 The Lion and the Mouse, though this book has the added distinction that its rabbit is fuzzy, on the cover and all the way through the book. After the initial encounter, King Lion commanded ...
Aesop's Fables
(Running Press, 1990)
Excellent versions of fourteen well chosen fables. TMCM includes bothersome cricket noise, bubble gum on the sidewalk, and seafood restaurants. Overspending because of the eggs drives the owner of the golden goose to ...