I find four fable illustrations among the stories collected on 95 pages in this children's book. One finds the fox and cat on 25, the rooster and fox on 55, the bear with his nose caught in a log on 71, and the monk with ...

Here is the Dutch version of the book that seems to have come originally from Ueberreuter in Vienna. I have now versions from Austria, Germany, UK, and Holland. Like the German version, this edition has a dust jacket ...

Close in its selection of stories to my When the Animals Could Talk: Fables (1984). This edition adds Murko und Burko (the outwitting cat is outwitted by the victim dog, 67) and Wie eine Meise das Meer in Brand Stecken ...

According to a note at the end of the book, the series in which this paperback is featured is a resurrection of a series done (starting in the 1950's?) by Little, Brown as the Favorite Fairy Tales series in hardback. Now ...

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 ...

See the hardbound edition under 1962. This printing--marked Special Edition on its back cover and New and Revised on the front cover--represents some changes. Copyrighted in 1962, 1987, and 1991. A small MCMXCIV in the ...

The lovely little Aesop booklet includes thirty-nine of Crane's classic fables in very small format. The booklet and its five mates measure slightly more than 3.5 by 3. Each of the six booklets has a particular slot in ...

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. ...

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 ...