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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This large-format paperback book offers twenty-two two-page spreads offering texts and black-and-white illustrations to be colored by a young reader. The illustrations are highly simple. TMCM is told at too great length! ...

160 timeless lessons in ethics, critical thinking, and common sense with more than 150 artful illustrations. This book's greatest feature may be the beautiful colored version of Griset's cover. It takes a full set of his ...