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The Nun's Priest's Tale of Chaucer
(Allen and Richard Lane, 1950)
This is a beautiful limited edition book. It impresses me particularly for its title-page art: a glorious presentation of the two main characters in red, gold, and black. The flutter of feathers around the title is perfect ...
El ratón de campo y el ratón de ciudad: Fabula de Babrio
(La Galera, SAU Editorial, 2007)
"Here is one of three books in a series that includes "manualidades" -- handicrafts generally -- and a scissors on the cover of each book. The "handicraft" consists in cutting out parts for and then assembling a representation ...
La cigarra y la hormiga: Fabula de Babrio
(La Galera, SAU Editorial, 2007)
"Here is one of three books in a series that includes "manualidades" -- handicrafts generally -- and a scissors on the cover of each book. The "handicraft" consists in fashioning a representation of each of the characters. ...
El león y el mosquito: Fábula de Esopo
(La Galera, SAU Editorial, 2007)
"Here is one of three books in a series that includes "manualidades" -- handicrafts -- and a scissors on the cover of each book. The "handicraft" consists in fashioning a representation of each of the characters. This ...
La Grulla sabia
(Sigmar, 2011)
"This is a 16-page pamphlet 4½" x 6½". There is one sentence of the story and one image per page. This version features "Tia Grulla," who gives people wise advice, especially when they are hurting. She, like the other ...
El Cuervo sediento
(Sigmar, 2011)
"This is a 16-page pamphlet 4½" x 6½". There is one sentence of the story and one image per page. This version spends four pages to describe this crow's flights and his visits to friends and his eating of a lot of berries. ...
That's Not Fair, Hare!
(Scholastic, Inc, 2002)
This is a landscape pamphlet of 32 pages. This storyteller works hard and well at setting a context. Muggs the female turtle encounters a greedy hare eating the cabbages she normally feeds on and suggests sharing them. ...
King of the Birds
(Thomas Y. Crowell, 1988)
This book explicitly credits Aesop on its last page. At the kernel of the story is the fable about the wren riding the eagle to the heights and then soaring higher than the eagle does -- and so winning the contest to be ...
The Farmer and the Snake
(Mango: DC Books, 2008)
Here is a good dramatization of the Aesopic fable expressing that reconciliation may not be possible in every case. Here the venomous snake kills a man's son, and the man reacts by using an axe to cut off the snake's tail. ...
Jack-a-Dandy: The Tale of the Vain Jackdaw
(Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1925)
I now have five books in this series. Again, the cover is the same as for the others in the series. Again the Detmold tipped-in illustration serving as frontispiece is a reprint from his 1909 Hodder edition of Aesop's ...