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A Novel Journal: Aesop's Fables
(Peter Norton: Printers Row Publishing Group, 2016)
"Here is a first! This is indeed a journal for writing one's thoughts and experiences. The tiny lines in the journal are Aesop's fables. As an advertising slip proclaims, "The journal lines are the novel (in teeny, tiny ...
Fables d'Ésope
(Milan Jeunesse, 2011)
This large-format book offers twenty-six Aesopic fables with a distinctive illustration for each. The art makes abundant use of big spaces to make its good points about the fables. In twenty-four of the cases here, that ...
Aessemblage: Aesop's Fables Recycled by Artist Scott Rolfe
(Bang Printing, 2012)
What an explosion of imagination! The book presents twelve assemblages of old tools, parts, kitchen utensils, and sheer junk! The foreword by MC Di Venanzio rightly proclaims of viewing one of these works This is truly ...
The Cat and the Birds and Other Fables by Aesop
(The British Library, 2014)
This is a sturdy, small (4¾ x 6¼), and handsome 69 page edition that uses Rackham's art well. Several of the strong illustrations are allowed to move outside the margins, like WS (8), WC (13); FC (19), and FK (22). The ...
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: An Aesop Fable Retold & Illustrated
(Templar Books/Candlewick Press, 2012)
Helen Ward is giving herself generously to fables! Unwitting Wisdom, King of the Birds, The Rooster and the Fox, and The Hare and the Tortoise precede this book. Ward sets the story at Christmas time in New York in the ...
Aesop's Fables
(Race Point Publishing,Race Point: Quarto Publishing, 2015)
This small hardbound book is a curious melange. The introduction by Chesterton, taken without attribution from the 1912 edition featuring the art of Arthur Rackham, drops Chesterton's first paragraph. The translations ...
Les Fables du Renard/Fox Fables
(Mantra Lingua Ltd, 2006)
This is a large, handsome, landscape-formatted book of 32 pages presenting two fables bilingually. It belongs to a series, of which I now have five, including Arabic, Urdu, Swahili, and Polish. The series presents the ...
Aesopica
(University of Illinois Press, 2007)
Here is a wonderful gift of Willis Regier, retired Director of the University of Illinois Press and a fellow fable devotee. This 2007 edition has a 2007 preface honoring Ben Edwin Perry. It is as beautifully produced as ...
The Tortoise and the Hare: An Aesop's Fable
(Age of Learning, 2013)
Here is one of five books in a series I found together. 24 pages, with page 3 being the title-page. The book is aimed at younger children. It explains, for example, that a tortoise is a kind of turtle and a hare a kind ...
Great Illustrated Classics: Aesop's Fables
(Baronet Books, 2000)
This book reproduces in smaller format (8 x 5¾) Great Illustrated Aesop's Fables by the same publisher in 1994. Rochelle Larkin is still acknowledged as editor, but Lorna Tomei, acknowledged there as illustrator, is not ...