This is the first of seven strong books. The book is made to be read with the story -- English or Korean -- on the two accompanying CDs. The first thing one notices about these books is their stiff, strong pages. There ...

This is the second of seven strong books. The book is made to be read with the story -- English or Korean -- on the two accompanying CDs. The first thing one notices about these books is their stiff, strong pages. There ...

Nine fables in rhymed iambic tetrameter. These texts are meant to be read aloud to children. Lessie speaks warmly of family experiences with poetry read aloud. I can mostly applaud her efforts here. A number of rhymes ...

Here is an unpaginated, heavy, large-format (8x11) book with 24 Evergreen Tales. Each tale is sixteen pages in length and may have been a booklet on its own. Each story has a title-page without any other text than the ...

Three fables, originally from Ancient Greece. WSC, BW, and The Wolf and the Goat. Good tellings by Pie Corbett. One of the best illustrations shows the wolf dreaming of eating: he sits at a table with a nice bib, holding ...

See my comments on the paperback version published in the same year by the same publisher. The dj on this hardbound version is slightly torn.

This attractive 120-page book with shiny bright covers presents twenty-three bilingual Aesopic fables. FS is the first offering and gives a good example of the style. The fables are significantly expanded here. Thus the ...

How nice to get this book almost hot off the presses! I commend the authors for researching their introduction carefully and for using Perry numbers to identify the four fables they offer. The introduction notes some ...

Here is a new experience for me. Parragon published one year earlier a book with the same title except for using the British spelling Favourite. This book is largely identical but with that u dropped whenever the title ...

This book put together by two persons who grew up in South Africa is a serious addition to the Aesop tradition. Its particular niche is that it uses African animals in otherwise perfectly traditional Aesopic fables. Thus ...