How can the Tortoise run faster than the Hare? What happens when the dog growls at its image? Or when the Country Mouse goes to supper with the Town Mouse? These wonderful stories have delighted adults and children for centuries, with their witty observations on animals and humans too. In the Fox, i[...]

A collection of the classic fables includes "Sour Grapes," "Slow but Sure," "Town Mouse and Country Mouse," and more than two hundred others[...]

'The story goes that a sow who had delivered a whole litter of piglets loudly accosted a lioness. "How many children do you breed?" asked the sow. "I breed only one", said the lioness, "but it is very well bred!"' The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European cultu[...]

El nombre de Esopo se utiliza para abarcar una larga tradicion de fabulas que configuran de algun modo el origen del imaginario moral de la cultura europea. En el presente volumen recogemos, en la nueva y luminosa traduccion, todas las fabulas de tradicion esopica que, con variada procedencia, fuero[...]

A leather bound edition from the popular series. It features a satin-ribbon bookmark, decorative stained edging and marbled endpapers.[...]

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop fables in a collection that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid[...]

The original "Aesop Fables", introduced by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Over two hundred familiar tales from "Look Before You Leap" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" to much less familiar tales, each with its own sharply pointed moral. Puffin Classics come with additional and material including [...]

"Kindness is seldom wasted."
--from "The Lion and the Mouse" It is both amazing and wonderful that so much of the richness of our language and our moral education still owes a huge debt to a Greek slave who was executed more than two thousand years ago. Yet "sour grapes," "crying 'wolf, '" "acti[...]

Two famous fables 'The Fox and the Crow' and 'The Monkey and the Dolphin'. Aesop, who lived over 2000 years ago, used fables to illustrate human failings and they are still relevant today.[...]

Translation by Roger L'Estrange

Part of the "First Reading" series, this title is aimed at children who are beginning to read. It allows children to build their burgeoning reading skills and is accompanied by illustrations.[...]