Books with title Animal Fables from Aesop

Share timeless wisdom with your children in these classic fables of Aesop, wonderfully illustrated with fabulous animal characters by Barbara McClintock.Nine timeless fables, first told by the Greek Aesop, selected, adapted, and illustrated by Barbara McClintock. This read-aloud collection includes such familiar tales as “The Fox and the Grapes” and the lesser-known “The Wolf and the Lamb” and “The Crow and the Peacocks.”Each fable is brought to life by McClintock’s uncanny ability to capture humanity, with all its strengths and weaknesses, in the expressions of her exquisitely drawn costumed creations--filled with the delicacy of line and color that has come to be her trademark.The New York Times said, “The graceful full-color illustrations are both delicate and theatrical. . . . witty, full of charm and foible.” Entertainment Weekly said, “McClintock’s wittily stylish illustrations have the charm and detail of 19th-century children’s books. Her human-like animals are marvelously lively and expressive.”This is a treasury with wise and funny stories you’ll love discussing, time and again, with children.

Share timeless wisdom with your children in these classic fables of Aesop, wonderfully illustrated with fabulous animal characters by Barbara McClintock.Nine timeless fables, first told by the Greek Aesop, selected, adapted, and illustrated by Barbara McClintock. This read-aloud collection includes such familiar tales as “The Fox and the Grapes” and the lesser-known “The Wolf and the Lamb” and “The Crow and the Peacocks.”Each fable is brought to life by McClintock’s uncanny ability to capture humanity, with all its strengths and weaknesses, in the expressions of her exquisitely drawn costumed creations--filled with the delicacy of line and color that has come to be her trademark.The New York Times said, “The graceful full-color illustrations are both delicate and theatrical. . . . witty, full of charm and foible.” Entertainment Weekly said, “McClintock’s wittily stylish illustrations have the charm and detail of 19th-century children’s books. Her human-like animals are marvelously lively and expressive.”This is a treasury with wise and funny stories you’ll love discussing, time and again, with children.

This book includes 9 well-known fables, including The Fox and the Grapes, The Wolf and the Lamb"" and The Crow and the Peacocks"". Barbara revitalizes the ancient fables with her exquisite and old pictures and clear and concise descriptions. The little animals in this book turn into the stage characters with ancient costumes to retell you those lasting stories and epigrams.

Hardcover, by Ennis Rees with illustrations by J.J. Grandville, published by Oxford University Press, NY, 1966. Dj has b/w illustrations on both panels. Publisher's statement: "Mr. Rees's version of the fables is complemented by the inclusion of many of the wood engravings that J.J. Granville made for an 1838 edition of La Fontaine's Fables,illustrations in which the animals of the stories are sharply characterized." Illustrations are b/w. Includes 187 fables (forty-two were previously published in Poems by Ennis Rees in 1964, six previously published in Arion 3). Publisher's statement: "The wit and vigor with which Ennis Rees retells these one hundred and eighty-seven traditional tales will appeal to readers young and old. As he says, "I have tried to re-create selected fables in verse for our time, and to do it in as lively a way as I could consistent with simplicity." Each age makes its own version of that body of anonymous lore that the ancients ascribed to "Aesop," of whom we know little beyond legend. According to tradition, he was a slave who lived in about the sixth century before Christ. In many instances, fables ascribed are surely kindred to fables of India and China, as well as to certain of the Brer Rabbit tales--all from that ocean of story that has encircled the globe since time immemorial...Mr. Rees's version of the fables is complemented by the inclusion of many of the wood engravings that J.J. Grandville made for an 1838 edition of La Fontaine's Fables, illustrations in which the animals of the stories are sharply characterized."