Fabulous Fables: Traditional Fables from Aesop
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Nadin, Joanna
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2016
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This 32-page pamphlet for school children, complete with discussion questions, a quiz, and suggestions for further reading, has three fables: DS has a curious beginning. This dog steals from his friends. The wise cow consoles them that he will get his comeuppance. When this dog loses his bone to the river's current, he thinks he still has a chance for the bigger one that he saw in the river. FC is different in that the fox finds a piece of meat behind the butcher's shop but is full. While he sleeps the crow steals it from him. This fox's ploy is to say that crow is fit to be king of all creatures but that his voice is out of tune. "Be careful if you trick someone because theiy might trick you back." The farmer in "The Farmer and the Eagle" is grumpy and suspicious about animals, but the friendly eagle cures him of that. Now if the eagle finds a lost lamb, she carries it back to him. If he catches a rabbit in net, he leaves it out for her tea, not his -- and eats a cheese sandwich instead. Lively contemporary twists on these three age-old stories.
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Oxford University Press
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11770 (Access ID)