Though the seller incorrectly listed this book as written by Aesop, it offers the stuff of fable. Lamb and butterfly meet in a meadow, and the lamb has incessant questions for the fluttering butterfly. Through their ...

Each pair of pages in this sixteen-page booklet presents one full page of text and one of colored illustration. Fast hare is always darting about, while tortoise takes his time and loves to paint pictures of nature around ...

Each pair of pages presents one full page of text and one of colored illustration. The picture of the cow maid holding her mop at the farmhouse's half-door is too good to miss! This cook/traveler proclaims from the start ...

Each pair of pages presents one full page of text and one of colored illustration. The woodcutter here is perhaps a beaver, but he still uses an axe. A water sprite makes the usual triple retrieval. After selling the ...

This book takes the FS story to unusual places. Reynard has no wife and no family. Mrs. Vixen, an elderly widowed cousin, keeps house for him. He comes home regretful after a delightful party with his nieces and nephews. ...

Two things are coming clear to me as I get into further stories in this series. First, the cover picture is the same on each book. No wonder I noticed that it has nothing to do with the book's particular story! Secondly, ...

This is a loving, expansive telling of TMCM, interspersed with pleasing, lightly imprinted designs. Maybe the key comes on 18: Now it has been often said that everything in this world depends on how you look at it. And ...

This is an unusually reflective approach to the story of GA. Great-Grandfather Ant harrumphs against Jumping Joan, the singing grasshopper, during the summer, promising that a day for regret will come. Joan consults with ...

As the bibliographer writes of this 16-page pamphlet, Retelling of a fable about a crow and some deer. I wish I could decipher more about that fable! The colored illustration on the cover shows the crow with the lion. ...

About seven years earlier, Toni and Slade Morrison did three books of fables for Scribner's, all beginning with the question Who's Got Game? Their artist in all three of those was Pascal LeMaitre. Now here is a new ...