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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HC no DJ. Light rubbing to corners. #hardcover #squids #fables #beasts #morals #childrens #jonscieszka #lanesmith #juvenilefiction #fiction 

California

Squids Will be Squids

HC no dust jacket. Light rubbing to corners 

Usborne 10 Ten Minute Stories 

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

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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Paul Galdone

HC no dust jacket. Rubbing to corners. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition.

"Once upon a time there was a sweet little maiden who was loved by all who knew
her . . ."
So begins this classic tale about Little Red Riding Hood and her encounter with the
wolf one day when she is on her way to visit her sick grandmother. Paul Galdone has
drawn on the Brothers Grimm version of Little Red Riding Hood, and lends beautiful,
vibrant illustrations to his exciting retelling of this classic fairy tale. Small children and
Paul Galdone's older fans will cheer as the old tale comes enchantingly alive in lovely,
nostalgic, full-color pictures.

Little Red Riding Hood

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Fractured retelling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Betsy Who Cried Wolf

Manuela ADREANI

Foam HC no dust jacket. Light rubbing to corners. Tight binding. Pages in very good condition.

Fables of la Fontaine

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Virginia

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Bill Willingham

Delaware

Various characters from the world's fables, including Prince Charming, Cinderella, and Bigby Wolf, complete with magical powers, struggle to survive in the real world while living in a secret neighborhood of New York City called Fabletown.

Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile

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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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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

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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James Finn Garner

Michigan

A Collection of Modern Tales of Our Life and Times

A whimsical adaptation of classic fairy tales and bedtime stories removes all kinds of bias and objective language from such traditional tales as "Chicken Little," "Rapunzel," "The Three Little Pigs," "Cinderella," and many others.

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Brian Wildsmith

The Lion and the Rat: A Fable by La Fontaine

Lilian Jackson Braun

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

Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

Squids Will be Squids

Designed by Laura Nelson and Lenka Hrehova

Usborne 10 Ten Minute Stories

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

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

Aesop's Fables

Paul Galdone

Little Red Riding Hood

Gail Carson Levine, Scott Nash (ill)

Betsy Who Cried Wolf

Manuela ADREANI

Fables of la Fontaine

S. A. Handford

Aesop's Fables

Bill Willingham

Fables Vol. 1: Legends in Exile

Matthew Sturges

Fables: the Wolf among Us Vol. 2

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

James Finn Garner

Politically Correct Bedtime Stories