Here is a book I have come to possess because it was advertised as Finnish Fables. My suspicion from looking at the simple line-drawings is that these are more fairy tales than fables. At any rate, the book has 200 pages. ...

Fourteen fables show up (90-96) under Aesop in this volume that handles A up to Antar. In LS (92), the lion was in league with several, but only three others, unnamed, happened to be present at this time of the deer's ...

An excellent compendium of Korean folk literature. The fifteen-page section on fables (183-97) contains nineteen fables. The Bald Old Man (191) is very close to Aesop; the wife suspects a mistress and so the husband ...

Compare this book with the first edition. The same twelve fables from Jacobs appear, now on 325-29. Now there is one black-and-white illustration, unacknowledged, for LM. There are suggestions for the appropriate grades, ...

The Burro's Load (67) is developed from the La Fontaine fable about salt and sponges. It is labelled as coming from Mexico. In this version, the friendly owner invites the burro to cool his feet in the stream. The burro ...

A strange, talkative adaptation of Greek mythology to American mountain folklore, heavy on devils, guardian angels, and magic. There is no explanation of the background or method. Simple illustrations. SW (94) is vintage ...

This is a nice set of stories to read children four years old and older. It contains one fable, well told with a colored picture: Kürbis und Eichel (17). It is labeled simply Fabel. Neither La Fontaine nor another source ...

This hefty paperback -- about 8 x 9 and 416 pages long -- is divided by good categories: Myths and Fables; Fairy Tales; Folk Tales; Friends and Helpers; Hawk and Chicken Tales; Rabbit Stories; Liar, Fool, and Tall Tales; ...

This large-format book with sharply detailed illustrations has six stories, of which the first, TH, is a fable. The story is well told. The illustration features a tortoise with pince-nez, a hare with sweatband and ...

This book is identical with another in the collection, with the same publication year. This book is, however, a sixth printing, whereas that is a first. There is a difference in the endpapers. In that first printing, ...