There are eight fairy tales here, listed on the inside of the front cover. The last of them is Renard the cunning fox. This tale starts with Renard boasting. Soon we are in the fable of FC, but the deciding moment in ...

Here is the first of two extra copies of this book. Six fables in a large-format book whose spine has suffered in all three of my copies. Black-and-white smaller illustrations are combined with a few full-colored full-page ...

Here is the second of two extra copies of this book. Six fables in a large-format book whose spine has suffered in all three of my copies. Black-and-white smaller illustrations are combined with a few full-colored full-page ...

Here is another extra of the green-covered version of this book. This edition looks with its big print and many illustrations as though it is meant as a library book for pupils in the early grades. The eighteen Aesop ...

See the nearly identical edition of 1927. Here the cover has a picture, but the endpapers have lost most of their colors. The fables of Aesop are on 364-88. Some curious tellings: the monkey seizes the cat's paws and ...

There is one set of five fables from India on 3718, including a sanitized version of The Ape and the Wedge. There are no illustrations.

A packed little volume, with eighteen chapters divided by author. No illustrations. Good modern versions of people like Caxton. This book has been very helpful in preparation of the course on fables this past semester. ...

A great book that starts off with a bang with a two-page animal parade. Both the verse texts and the colorful illustrations are a delight. Page 26 refers to Aesop in an introduction to animal verse used to point out human ...

I Think I Know (18) is the story about hiring the donkey’s shadow. The donkey’s departure is well motivated by his comments about their failure to think of him when they have stopped for water. “Why the Turtle Does Not ...

A beautiful large-format book which Florence had forgotten that she had. It starts with a preface written by Crane for this edition, in which he has fun with the notion of his triplets and offers a new sketch of the proper ...