Books with title The Baby's Own Aesop

Walter Crane (1845-1915) was an English artist. Born in Liverpool, he was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. He produced paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts. In 1862 his picture The Lady of Shalott was exhibited at the Royal Academy, but the Academy steadily refused his maturer work; and after the opening of the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 he ceased to send pictures to Burlington House. In 1864 he began to illustrate a series of sixpenny toy-books of nursery rhymes in three colours for Edmund Evans. He was allowed more freedom in a series beginning with The Frog Prince (1874) which showed markedly the influence of Japanese art, and of a long visit to Italy following his marriage in 1871. From the early 1880s, Crane was closely associated with the Socialist movement. He provided the weekly cartoons for the Socialist Organs Justice, The Commonweal and The Clarion. One of his last major works would be his Lunettes at the Royal West of England Academy which were painted in 1913.

This is a very colorful graphic reprint of the Classic Fable by Aesop and Walter Crane as the famous illustrator. Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. 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 (from which the idiom "sour grapes" derives), The Tortoise and the Hare, The North Wind and the Sun, The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Ant and the Grasshopper are well-known throughout the world. Apollonius of Tyana, a 1st century CE philosopher, is recorded as having said about Aesop: ... like those who dine well off the plainest dishes, he made use of humble incidents to teach great truths, and after serving up a story he adds to it the advice to do a thing or not to do it. Then, too, he was really more attached to truth than the poets are; for the latter do violence to their own stories in order to make them probable; but he by announcing a story which everyone knows not to be true, told the truth by the very fact that he did not claim to be relating real events. (Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book V:14) Walter Crane (1845-1915) was one of the earliest contributors to children's literature and one of the most influential illustrators in the development of children's color picture books. Crane began working for Edmund Evans in 1864 producing bright, colorful children's books which revolutionized the type of children's books available. This wonderfully decorated book 'The Baby's Own Aesop', is collection of rhyming Aesop's Fables about animals originally published in 1887. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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The Fox and the GrapesThe Cock and the Pearl—The Wolf and the LambThe Wind and the SunKing Log and King StorkThe Frightened LionThe Mouse and the Lion—The Married MouseHercules and the WaggonerThe Lazy HousemaidsThe Snake and the File—The Fox and the CrowThe Dog in the Manger—The Frog and the BullThe Fox and the CraneHorse and Man—The Ass and the EnemyThe Fox and the Mosquitoes—The Fox and the LionThe Miser and his Gold—The Golden EggsThe Man that pleased NoneThe Oak and the Reeds—The Fir and the BrambleThe Trees and the WoodmanThe Hart and the VineThe Man and the SnakeThe Fox and the MaskThe Ass in the Lion's SkinThe Lion and the StatueThe BoasterThe Vain JackdawThe Peacock's ComplaintThe Two Jars—The Two CrabsBrother and SisterThe Fox without a TailThe Dog and the ShadowThe Crow and the Pitcher—The Eagle and the CrowThe Blind DoeThe Geese and the CranesThe Trumpeter taken PrisonerHot and ColdNeither Beast nor BirdThe Stag in the Ox-stall—The Deer and the LionThe Lion in LoveThe Cat and Venus—Mice in CouncilThe Hen and the Fox—The Cat and the FoxThe Hare and the Tortoise—The Hares and the FrogsPorcupine, Snake and Company—The Bear and the BeesThe Bundle of SticksThe Farmer's TreasureThe Cock, the Ass, and the Lion—The Ass and the Lap DogFortune and the BoyThe Ungrateful Wolf—The Fisherman and the FishThe Herdsman's Votes—The Horse and the AssThe Ass and the Sick Lion

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