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Selección Dorada II Fábulas
(LatinBooks International, 2008)
Here is an oversized (11 x 15) and unusually heavy book offering five vividly illustrated fables. The Lion and the Mosquito has an unusual early phase. Though he comes from an insect colony where mosquitoes seem to have ...
Ezópus meséi: Az oroszlán és a kisegér
(Pannon Literatura, 2008)
This is a curious book formed out of four folding stiff cardboard pages. The front page features a dramatic colored group including a lion, a mule, and a crab. We open to a two-page presentation of LM. We soon see an ...
101 fables du monde entier
(Bayard Jeunesse, 2003)
This is a stout, heavy book about 6 x 7¾. It was once the property of the École Primaire Publique in Marseilles. Each fable gets a two-page spread with a text and small design on the left and a lively full-page colored ...
Tierfabeln
(Büttenpapierfabrik Hahnemühle GmbH., 2000)
Here is a little gift item from a paper factory to its friends. The beauty mark of this lovely little (6x 8¼) book lies in its illustrations. They are copious and excellent. The colors that predominate are brown and ...
Fábulas de Siempre: Las Tradicionales
(Selector: Editorial Libsa, 2002)
This is a sturdy 8½ x 10½ paperback offering thirty classic fables, all but one on a single page. The contributors include Aesop, Phaedrus, La Fontaine, Samaniego, and Hartzenbusch. The unacknowledged illustrations are ...
Fable Comics
(First Second Books, 2015)
Here are twenty-eight fables rendered by contemporary cartoonists. They range in size from one page to six. The first offering, FG, by James Kochalka, includes a good deal of appropriate chatter from the fox and a jet-pack ...
Fàbulas de Mayor a menor 7
(Uranito Editores, 2014)
This landscape-formatted volume, found by chance on eBay, has helped me to discover a new series, now complete in this collection through its seventh member. The older Nacho reads to the younger Tobi from this book on a ...
Wise Animals: Aesop & His Followers: An Exhibition at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 20 January thorugh 6 April 2012
(The Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012)
Griset (cover) and Billinghurst (title-page) lead off. Valerie Hotchkiss' foreword does as good a job as I have seen in introducing on one page the genre of fable and its place in our literature and life. Regier then ...
Die schönsten Tierfabeln
(Kerle bei Herder, 2011)
Here are 58 fables with sprightly illustrations. The fun begins with the animal cartoons that surround the opening T of C. Even before then, there is a worm crawling on the final N of the book's title on the title-page. ...
Fabeln aus aller Welt
(Tulipan Verlag, 2012)
This is an impressive large-format book. It contains 110 fables. Impressive is the care at the book's end to list them in a T of C and an AI. There follows on 188 a list of sources, first for the fables whose authors ...