True to the character of this book, I will say that it provides me a learning experience. First, I bought the book from an Australian dealer because I could not find it here in the USA. Now I see that Amazon is selling ...

My hat is off to Laura for producing this lovely book. There is one -- one! -- page that stands between the reader and the beginning of enjoying the 1001 Latin fables. This page gives the reader what she or he needs to ...

Here is a slightly smaller version in a special collection of a book already in the collection. The cover and the verso of the title-page proclaim this book as part of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. This copy has ...

I visited this monthly flea-market as a part of a visit with my cousin Barb, and there in the middle of the market was an Usborne representative selling books at non-flea-market prices. I have enjoyed Usborne books for a ...

Commissioned by The Friends of the Print Collection of The Free Library of Philadelphia for Bound/Unbound, the 7th annual Robert F. Looney Memorial Event. Viguers draws most on Jacobs' 1894 collection. Viguers claims to ...

As the verso of the title-page makes clear, this book has a rich history. It was first published by Penguin in 1954, with a new edition in 1964. Puffin published it in 1993. This new Puffin edition does, as far as I can ...

Here are twelve fables on eight pages -- and the back-cover. Another piece on the back-cover announces A selection of timelessly poignant vignettes from the celebrated author of The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf,' The Tortoise and ...

Now here is a surprise. Dover took its fine book and changed it ever so slightly without changing any of the information on the verso of the title-page. What does get changed there is the format of their Green Edition ...

This is a curious book. It takes 288 pages and offers generally one fable per page, complete with a monochrome presentation of a Milo Winter illustration for many of the fables, taken straight from The Aesop for Children, ...

This is a large format (over 11½ x 8) pamphlet of 16 pages. The illustrations are large, loud, and splashy. The fox asks the crow if he is king of the birds. There are simple questions to answer on the last page and ...