Here, to my surprise, is a new edition of this book that seems identical with the original 2012 edition by the same publisher. As I wrote there, there are ten groups of twenty fables each, with individual fables generally ...

The author declares in the introduction that he wanted to know more about Aesop before retelling Aesop's stories. The information he found led him to wonder what might have happened if Aesop had started up his own business, ...

Fiona Waters, I am learning, is a prominent creator of children's books; she has produced some eight of them! She and Fulvio Testa have combined to make a very good fable book here. Testa's style remains similar to the ...

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 ...

There are four fables in this 16-page, large-format (almost 8½ x 11) booklet. MM features about the youngest girl -- Anne -- I have seen for this role. Her ruminations include Poor Polly Shaw! Won't she be jealous? ...

There are four fables in this 16-page, large-format (almost 8½ x 11) booklet. Mercury and the Woodcutter underscores the stupidity of the greedy man, who immediately takes the golden axe. The Horse, Hunter & the Stag has ...

There are four fables in this 16-page, large-format (almost 8½ x 11) booklet. The title-story comes only third of the four. The Shepherd and the Wild Goats is well told and well illustrated: those who treat new recruits ...

There are four fables in this 16-page, large-format (almost 8½ x 11) booklet. After GA, the booklet offers The Ass and his Masters, TB, and CV. Each story has four pages. In GA, the grasshopper only sees the ants happily ...

There are four fables in this 16-page, large-format (almost 8½ x 11) booklet. TH is told in traditional fashion, but the booklet's cover presents the hare riding on the tortoise. The hare also happens to be holding a ...