Aesop Aesop

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they decide they prefer their own way of living.

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

More than a hundred animal stories teach lessons about kindness, persuasion, boastfulness, flattery, common sense, revenge, honesty and curiosity.

The Aesop for Children

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Tennessee

Translated into English. with instructive applications; and a print To

Fables of Aesop, and Others

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California

240 Short Stories for Children - Illustrated

Aesop's Fables is a collection of fables written by a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. Aesop's Fables are mostly short animal stories with each fable ending with a moral advice. His fables are some of the most well known in the world. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as "The Fox and the Grapes", "The Tortoise and the Hare", "The North Wind and the Sun", and "The Ant and the Grasshopper" are well-known throughout the world. In this book, there are about 240 fables written by Aesop and are heavily illustrated. These stories teach moral lessons, often with animals. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition.

Aesop's Fables

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Original owners label on inside cover see photo. Some yellowing from aging.

New York

City mouse-country mouse -- The lion and the mouse -- Belling the cat.

City Mouse-Country Mouse and Two More Mouse Tales from Aesop

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It is not known whether Aesop himself drew pictures to accompany his fables and then for relaxation colored them in -- but ever since, his little animal stories with their accompanying morals have been substance for artists and colorists alike. The illustrations to the 46 fables included in this new coloring book were done by an unknown woodcut artist in a German incunabular edition of Aesop dating from 1476. Their quality of both capturing the essence of the fable and inviting any coloring medium made them popular for coloring in the fifteenth century and still make them popular today.
You will be familiar with many of these fables, but if there are some you cannot quite remember, new translations from the original surviving Greek texts have been made to give the right sense of these fables as they have been known since the time in 580 B.C. when Aesop created them.



Aesop's Fables Coloring Book

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Shari Lewis

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

The Lion and the Mouse

Lamb Chop learns an important lesson in life after hearing Aesop's fable "The Lion and the Mouse."

The Boat Contest

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S. A. Handford

D. L. Ashliman

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.

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Edward W. Clayton

Smoke free home, pet free home. It is missing the dust jacket. There is smudge marks on the front cover and back cover. There are no writings, markings or highlights in this book. All pages are still intact. Still in good condition.

Massachusetts

Presented in hardcover, this title has been carefully edited and reset in a modern design for greater readability. It includes an introduction, informative notes and a chronology of the writer's life and times to enable the reader to gain a deeper understanding of these enduring works.

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Colorado

While scholars are uncertain about the identity of Aesop or whether he was even an actual person, there is no doubt that the stories originally collected under his name over 2,000 years ago in Greece are among the world's most beloved tales. Combining a moral lesson with an entertaining story, the fables still retain their power to charm and instruct.
This delightful collection includes a selection of familiar favorites, including "The Fox and the Grapes," "The Ants and the Grasshopper," "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," "The Crow and the Pitcher," "The Lion and the Mouse," "The Dog and His Shadow," "The Wolf and the Kid," "The Fox and the Stork," "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The Maid and the Pail of Milk," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and dozens more.
Reset in large, easy-to-read type and accompanied by 35 original illustrations by Pat Stewart, Aesop's Fables is ready to enchant and edify a new generation of readers.

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Eric Scott Fisher

Former library hardcover with light wear. 

Ohio

Presents over forty illustrated adaptations of Aesop's classic fables.

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Pennsylvania

Arizona

New Hampshire

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Ann McGovern

Name on front cover. Ex-classroom copy with sticker on binding and sticker on back cover. Tanning to pages. No rips or tears.

Oregon

Simple versions of more than sixty fables use animals to teach lessons about wise and foolish human behavior.

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Maryland

 Yellowing on top edge and edge. See pics 

North Carolina

Jan Payne

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Treasury of Aesop's Fables

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Caroline Castle

The Hare and the Tortoise

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G. K. Chesterton

The history of the fable likely does not originate with Aesop; however it is with him that we associate the fable's most ancient of known origins. Little is actually known of the life of Aesop. According to the historical accounts of Herodotus, Aristotle, and Plutarch, he was a slave from the Greek island of Samos who lived between 620 and 564 BC. Described as a strikingly ugly man he is said to have secured his freedom through his cleverness. Known for his wit, Aesop would become employed as an advisor by kings and city-states. The simplicity of the fable cannot be overstated. The short narrative form and the use of animals to personifying particular human characteristics makes the fable a particularly useful form of instruction for imparting bits of wisdom to children. Dozens of fables have been attributed to Aesop, however given their sometimes conflicting moral lessons, the attribution of some fables to Aesop is considered by certain scholars as to be spurious. Collected together here are some of the most famous examples of Aesop's fables. This edition follows the translation of V. S. Vernon Jones, includes an introduction by G. K. Chesterton, is illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Aesop's Fables (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton)

Tom Paxton

Michigan

A collection of fables from Aesop retold in verse.

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Eve Rice

Once in a Wood: Ten Tales from Aesop (Greenwillow Books Edition, 1979)

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S. A. Hanford

Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, who represented his masters in court and negotiations and relied on animal stories to put across his key points. Such fables vividly reveal the strange superstitions of ordinary ancient Greeks, how they treated their pets, how they spoilt their sons and even what they kept in their larders.

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Aesop's Fables

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The Boat Contest

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Aesop's Fables

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

Aesop's Fables

Aesop Aesop; Edward W. Clayton

Aesop's Fables

Jan Payne; Aesop Aesop

A Treasury of Aesop's Fables

Caroline Castle; Aesop Aesop

The Hare and the Tortoise

Aesop Aesop; G. K. Chesterton

Aesop's Fables (Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with an Introduction by G. K. Chesterton)

Tom Paxton; Aesop Aesop

Aesop's Fables

Eve Rice; Aesop

Once in a Wood: Ten Tales from Aesop (Greenwillow Books Edition, 1979)

S. A. Hanford; Aesop Aesop

The Fables of Aesop