This is a beautiful limited edition book. It impresses me particularly for its title-page art: a glorious presentation of the two main characters in red, gold, and black. The flutter of feathers around the title is perfect ...

"This is a 16-page pamphlet 4½" x 6½". There is one sentence of the story and one image per page. This version features "Tia Grulla," who gives people wise advice, especially when they are hurting. She, like the other ...

"This is a 16-page pamphlet 4½" x 6½". There is one sentence of the story and one image per page. This version spends four pages to describe this crow's flights and his visits to friends and his eating of a lot of berries. ...

Here is the second lovely rendition of this beloved story that I found in one visit to Antiquariat Ihring. This version, like the other from Hübener Verlag in 1947, places the race on the Buxtehuder Heide (22). The special ...

Is this famous story of the race between the hare and the hedgehog a fable? I admit that the charm of this booklet made me say yes for now, at least to including the booklet in the collection. This is hedgehog life as ...

This expansion of TMCM is engaging for, I believe, two particular reasons. It is indeed an expansion. The fable here takes thirty-two pages to tell! There are lots of adventures in both country and city. The first ...

Here is a Danish version of a book I already have from Usborne in 2007 in English: The Fox and the Stork Based on a Story by Aesop. This edition follows that edition closely. Like that, this is a sturdy book, about 8 x ...

A lovely little book, printed as well as told and illustrated by Cunningham. This miniature book is a good example of strategic repetition and variation. It looks like the same illustration is used for all three pages ...

This English version uses the pictures one can find in Mes Fables d'Animaux by Touret in Milan. I had guessed for that larger hardbound book of six stories a date of 1975. This 24-page pamphlet uses the illustrations ...

This is one of four four-page cardboard books found -- luckily! -- on eBay. After a full cover picture, each booklet puts a rectangle of text inside a frame of subsequent images on each of the next three pages. Here the ...