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, ...

Originally published in Japan by Hoshinowakai. In The Brothers and the Birds, a kind younger brother, thrown out of the home by his older brother, is taken by some grateful birds to a land of gold, with which he fills his ...

René Hausman is a celebrated illustrator of comic books in Belgium and France. Here is his La Fontaine, and it is wonderful! In image and after image, I found myself saying either He has it right! or I have not thought ...

I noticed this book as I wandered around Learning Sprout Toys in Tacoma on a morning of visiting after a fable lecture at Puget Sound University. The story starts in the present but promptly shifts to the past. Pipin is ...

Hayashi and Bishop did Fables from the Garden and Fables from the Sea. Here is a third collaborative work. It features ten original fables with an ecological bent. The first three give a sense of them. The first fable ...

This book is big and dramatic! It will appeal to children by its helpful introductions of the characters, e.g., A story about a not very nice hare and a pretty slow tortoise. I think one could best call the art primitive. ...

Here is a simple hardback fable book combinining fables from Aesop and La Fontaine. There are 156 pages of fables and a T of C. No illustrations except a frontispiece illustration from Grandville's Creatures rather than ...

This is the seventh 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 ...

Here is a heavy book offering on some 320 pages half of La Fontaine's fables, each with a full-page colored illustration. An AI at the beginning is also a T of C. I am trying to order Volume 2; this first volume presents ...

Here are twenty-two short religious stories on 62 pages. I tried the first five and enjoyed them. Puff Mouse and Prayer Mouse (1) is a clear redoing of The Publican and the Pharisee. Leo the Lonely Lion (3) finds community ...