The Fantastic Fables of Aesop
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Crisell, Rob
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2023
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This is a refreshing book. If it were a little less expensive, I would think of recommending it right after Milo Winter's "Aesop for Children" as a first fable book. Crisell's rhyming verse is witty and surprising. Jones' illustrations are creatively conceived and colorfully rendered. There is generally one fable to a page, with a colored illustration. The fox in FG (17) uses a pole vault in both the text and illustration! GA (42) is unusually pointed: "The ants stored grain to keep themselves fed, But Grasshopper didn't. Now Grasshopper's dead." The moral may go in too many directions: "There's a time for work and a time for play, And music careers don't often pay." The following fable improves on most of its tellings by substituting a girl for a boy and a man for a schoolmaster. "You're right," said the girl. "But save me today And lecture me tomorrow." The last two pages of this publish-on-demand book list all thirty morals, also in verse. 8" x 10".
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DePortola Press
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13495 (Access ID)