Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

The Lion and the Rat: A Fable by La Fontaine


A courageous Siamese bags a cunning cat burglar...a country kitty proves a stumbling block in a violent murder...and an intuitive feline's premonition helps solve the case of the missing antiques dealer.  14 short stories in all. Great book for cat lovers!  Makes a great gift

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

The Cat Who Had 14 Tales

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Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables

A FableThere once was an Eagle and a Lion who had worked together on a lot of books. They did The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, The Stinky Cheese Man, and Math Curse.'Everyone is waiting for Science Curse,? said their editor, Queen Bee.'Okay,? said Eagle Scieszka and Lion Smith. ?So why don't we make a book of weird fables with strange morals and call is Squids Will Be Squids?And they did.MORAL: With these guys, you just never know.Fables have been around for a very long time. Aesop was famous for telling them, although he wasn't the first'or the best-looking. Now from the incomparable team who stood fairy tales on their heads with The Stinky Cheese Man, come fables as you've never heard them before. There's the story of ?Little Walrus,? who tells just a little too much of the truth, and the morality tale of the boastful ?Piece of Toast and Fruit Loops.' We read of Slug, so busy admiring herself that she doesn't see the steamroller behind her, and learn the wise lessons of ?Hand, Foot, and Tongue? (Moral: There are some things we don't talk about at the dinner table).In their inimitable style, Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have created contemporary fables that reflect all the bossiness, sneakiness, bragging and silliness of our everyday lives. Of course, these tales are handled with such tact and sensitivity that we would never recognize a person like ourselves in them'would we?Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith are an enormously popular and highly acclaimed author and illustrator team. Mr. Scieszka perfected his keen ear for juvenile humor as an elementary school teacher. He now writes full time. Mr. Smith is a filmmaker as well as a writer and illustrator. He recently designed the characters for the film version of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. Jon Scieszka lives in Brooklyn, New York. Lane Smith lives in New York City.

Squids Will Be Squids

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Celtic God of Dreams

From the beloved, bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series comes a delightful addition to the Myths series. Dream Angus is one of the earliest of the Celtic deities, and one of the most beloved. Angus comes bounding over the heather with his bag of dreams to dispense to those who want them. He is lithe of foot and beautiful – as befits one who is also the Celtic Eros, the god of love, youth and beauty. Angus is a playful trickster, given to frightening people and cattle. He will reveal to you in a dream your true love, if asked, and if in the mood. He is a romantic, and one of the main stories associated with him is his search for the young woman who had appeared to him in his dreams. Eventually he finds her, but she is under a spell which makes her assume the shape of a bird for a year. Angus changes himself into a swan and the two lovers fly off together. In McCall Smith’s inimitable retelling of the myth, the setting is twentieth century Scotland. Angus is a psychotherapist who helps people understand their dreams, but there are limits to what he can reveal. Mesmerically weaving the modern day with the tales of the Celtic god, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams?

Dream Angus

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David Sedaris

Florida

A Modest Bestiary

An original collection of humorous fables features animals with unmistakably human failings, including a cynical cat struggling to sit through his prison-mandated AA meetings, and a pair of lovers separated by prejudiced family members.

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

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Kelly Ann Jacobson

Utah

A Pinocchio Retelling

In Lies of a Toymaker, a retelling of the classic Pinocchio, Paige, a queer teen and wooden toymaker's daughter, is slowly turning into wood, and must cross the demonic Land of Toys to stop the evil Deathsprites before they destroy her world. Award-winning author Kelly Jacobson (Tink and Wendy, Robin and Her Misfits) delivers her latest fairytale retelling in this cross between the classic Pinocchio and a Stephen King novel like The Gunslinger, Paige (a queer eighteen-year-old girl) is a wooden toymaker's daughter dragged from state to state as her mother, Petta Vitaly, hawks her creations from their caravan. When they finally return to Petta's hometown, Paige discovers Toy Palace, her family's animatronic toy business, but she keeps the discovery from her mother--only to find that she has begun to turn into a wooden marionette. With the help of two girls who use Paige's interest in them to pull off the heist, Paige breaks into Toy Palace and finds out some of the family history her mother has been hiding from her. Though Paige is abandoned by the two girls, she discovers a captive fairy in one of the upper rooms of Toy Palace, Prince Alexio, who shows her that an entire realm, the Land of Toys, has been destroyed by fairies called the Deathsprites--and that her family has been using Prince Alexio's powers to help the evil fairies gain power through the animatronic toys they are selling for the last eighteen years. Unable to cope with this new information, Paige runs away from Toy Palace and the captive prince, but her mother and a Toy Palace manager end up rescuing Prince Alexio instead. He finds Paige and takes her to the Land of Toys, where the Deathsprites have been turning sweet toys into terrible monsters determined to kill everything in their path. With the help of the talking cricket and Paige's newfound strength as a marionette, the two must cross the realm of piled toy parts and frightful creations to stop the Deathsprites from making a portal to Earth that will bring destruction on that planet, too. Lies of a Toymaker is a queer feminist YA retelling of the classic that reexamines what it means to "lie" for the benefit of others, and how the lines between truth and fiction are not always as clear as they seem. The book is told from several different perspectives, but follows Paige's journey most centrally. Many classics from the original story make an appearance, such as the whale, the talking cricket, the fox and the cat, and the Fairy with Azure Hair.

Lies of a Toymaker

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More Adventures of Spider 

Rudyard Kipling

For Little Children

How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk traditions.

Just So Stories

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Alison Lurie

New York

Women and Ghosts

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Vintage 1967 edition. Very good condition for the age. Some wear on edges and front cover crease along the spline. No other flaws.

Texas

The Fox and the Stork And Other La Fontaine Fables

Matthew Sturges

New Jersey

Bigby Wolf has been around for a good long while, and he's investigated pretty much every crime imaginable-but even an immortal Fable like him can still stumble across a once-in-a-lifetime case.

As the sheriff of the magical New York City neighborhood known as Fabletown, Bigby is hot on the trail of the killer who beheaded a princess and then unleashed a horde of gangsters and monsters to cover his tracks.

But even as Bigby reels from attempts on his life and watches his trail of suspects go cold, an old evil reappears to wreak havoc once more. Is the urban legend known as Bloody Mary to blame? Or is she just one more tortured pawn in an even bigger game, with an even more crooked opponent waiting to make his move?

The acclaimed adaptation of the hit mystery from Telltale Games-inspired by Bill Willingham's best-selling Vertigo series FABLES-concludes in this second volume of FABLES- THE WOLF AMONG US, written by Matthew Sturges and Dave Justus and featuring a powerful pack of artists, including Travis Moore, Shawn McManus, Eric Nguyen and Steve Sadowski. Collects issues #8-16.

Fables: the Wolf among Us Vol. 2

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S. A. Handford

D. L. Ashliman

Aesop Aesop

V. S. Vernon Jones

Missouri

Brief tales about animals illustrate moral principles and lessons of life, and include the stories of a crow who finds a clever way to get a drink of water, and a disappointed fox who decides the grapes he couldn't reach were sour.

Aesop's Fables

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Fractured retelling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Betsy Who Cried Wolf

The Pied Piper

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English

Stories and Activities to Promote Literacy

Recounts 24 fairy tales with accompanying teaching suggestions and activity sheets.

Multicultural Fables and Fairy Tales

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Kentucky

Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love

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Follows the adventures of storybook and nursery rhyme characters who live side-by-side with humans.

Fables Vol. 2: Animal Farm

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Brian Azzarello

Bill Willingham

Mike Carey

Jason Aaron

Tony Akins

Riccardo Burchielli

Get 192 pages from 7 debut Vertigo DC (Mature) comics.

DMZ by Brian Wood 
Army@Love by Rick Veitch
Jack of Fables by Bill Willingham
The Exterminators by Simon Oliver
Scalped by Jason Aaron
Crossing Midnight by Mike Carey
Loveless by Brian Azzarello

Great way to check out some new series at an affordable price.

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Seven Slices from Comics' Most Daring Imprint

Collects the first issues of "DMZ," "Army at Love," "Jack of Fables," "The Exterminators," "Scalped," "Crossing Midnight," "Loveless," and "Preview of Air."

Vertigo First Cut

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California

When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. Disguised among the normal citizens of modern-day New York, these magical characters have created their own peaceful and secret society within an exclusive luxury apartment building called Fabletown. But when Snow White's party-girl sister, Rose Red, is apparently murdered, it is up to Fabletown's sheriff, a reformed and pardoned Big Bad Wolf, to determine if the killer is Bluebeard, Rose's ex-lover and notorious wife killer, or Jack, her current live-in boyfriend and former beanstalk-climber. AWARDS: YALSA: 2004 annual recommended list of Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers ·Willingham, Bill. Animal Farm (Fables series). DC Comics: Vertigo. ·Willingham, Bill. Legends in Exile (Fables series). DC Comics: Vertigo. YALSA: 2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens ·Willingham, Bill, Todd Klein, and others. Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall. 2006. DC Comics/ Vertigo As of 2008, Fables has won twelve Eisner Awards. ·Best New Series in 2003 ·Best Serialized Story in 2003, 2005 and 2006 (Legends In Exile, March of the Wooden Soldiers and Homelands) ·Best Anthology in 2007 (Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall) ·Best Short Story in 2007 (A Frog's Eye View, by Bill Willingham and James Jean, in Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall) Hugo Award Nomination 2009: ·Fables: War and Pieces was nominated for the first Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story

Legends in Exile

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The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since they were first written down nearly two millennia ago. Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech; from his legendary storytelling came the collections of prose and verse fables scattered throughout Greek and Roman literature. First published in English by Caxton in 1484, the fables and their morals continue to charm modern readers: who does not know the story of the tortoise and the hare, or the boy who cried wolf?

Based on the translation of George Fyler Townsend 

Vintage 1968 - Aesop's Fables

Georgia

An illustrated collection of twelve humorous tales, including stories of how the rhinoceros got its skin and the leopard got its spots.

Tom Paxton

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Fun kids book in fair condition.  The last page is loose

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The Lion and the Rat: A Fable by La Fontaine

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The Cat Who Had 14 Tales

Jon Scieszka; Lane Smith (Illustrator)

Squids Will Be Squids

Alexander McCall Smith

Dream Angus

David Sedaris

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

Kelly Ann Jacobson

Lies of a Toymaker

Joyce Cooper Arkhurst, Jerry Pinkney

More Adventures of Spider

Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

Alison Lurie

Women and Ghosts

Jean De La Fontaine

The Fox and the Stork And Other La Fontaine Fables

Matthew Sturges

Fables: the Wolf among Us Vol. 2

S. A. Handford; D. L. Ashliman; Aesop Aesop; V. S. Vernon Jones

Aesop's Fables

Gail Carson Levine, Scott Nash (ill)

Betsy Who Cried Wolf

Tom DeFalco

The Pied Piper

Tara McCarthy

Multicultural Fables and Fairy Tales

Mark Buckingham (Illustrator); Mark Buckingham (Illustrator); Bill Willingham

Fables Vol. 3: Storybook Love

Bill Willingham

Fables Vol. 2: Animal Farm

Brian Azzarello; Bill Willingham; Mike Carey; Jason Aaron; Tony Akins; Riccardo Burchielli

Vertigo First Cut

Bill Willingham; Lan Medina (Illustrator); James Jean (Illustrator)

Legends in Exile

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Vintage 1968 - Aesop's Fables

Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

S. A. Handford; Tom Paxton

Aesop's Fables

David Sedaris

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

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