This is two books bound together, each with a separate ISBN number and separate pagination. Each book has five stories, 12 to 22 pages in length. Both feature heavy paper and large print. The stories are well told. ...

The flyleaf declares: 70 writers from across the creative spectrum bring their modern sensibilities to this classic format. Zombies, dog-men and robot wasps mingle with cats, coyotes and cockroaches. Parables ranging ...

Nacho reads to Tobi from this book -- in this number, in the bedroom. A full-page cartoon of them precedes each fable and follows the last fable. The latter applies the moral in the daily life of Nacho and Tobi. Those ...

Here is a slender book of 48 pages presenting six fables after an introduction and before a last word Esopo se calló. The introduction presents Aesop as talking to a group of children in ancient Greece. First up in his ...

Nacho reads to Tobi from this book. A full-page cartoon of them precedes each fable and follows the last fable. The latter applies the moral in the daily life of Nacho and Tobi. Those preceding a fable often have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...