Aesop's 2nd Book of Childhood Adventures: Aesop's fables and other short stories
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Aesop
Mastro, Vincent A.
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2013
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The second in a developing series of booklets containing three fables each. Part of the fun here is that Aesop is a small raccoon who keeps going out into the world and witnessing various adventures. Those adventures turn out to be traditional Aesopic fables, here the three pictured on the booklet's cover: GGE, Three Equal Shares, and OR. Young Aesop has again just asked his Nana why something happens -- and just heard that one sometimes needs to go find the answer for oneself -- when he goes out and runs into an owl who explains to him why the farmer they see is so sad. He killed the goose that laid golden eggs. This farmer harvested many golden eggs, but did not provide for the goose as he and his wife originally wanted to do. Aesop reacts with a gasp at hearing the farmer's plan to kill the goose. The second adventure involves Aesop overhearing a wolf and fox agree to hunt together. They are unsuccessful. There is a typo on 23: They tried and tried, but did not having any luck. The wolf and fox soon ask the lion to join their partnership, and the fable turns into LS. After claiming all three shares, this lion yells Run! and his two partners do, in one of the best pictures of the book. It is also used on the cover. OR here is told as an interaction between an oak and grass, not reeds. Aesop comes upon the oak as it lies uprooted by a storm the night before. The grasses respond to Aesop's questioning about why they did not get flattened by saying in tiny voices, echoed in tiny print, We bend. The oak assures Aesop that his roots are deep and that he will be okay.
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Vangelo Media
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10072 (Access ID)