fables

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What is a fable?

2014
Explains what fables are, with examples.

Aesop's fables

A retelling of over 50 classic Aesop fables, including The fox and the grapes and The donkey in the lion's skin.

Seven blind mice

1993
Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.

Chanticleer and the fox.

1958
A sly fox tries to outwit a proud rooster through the use of flattery.

Monkey wars

When rhesus monkeys are brutally massacred on the streets of Kolkata by a troop of power hungry langur monkeys, a young langur soldier's life is changed forever.

Pop-up Aesop

2005
Presents a children's pop-up book for early readers that contains five famous fables of Aesop including "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Bold Little Crab," and "The Hungry Wolf.".

Animal farm

2008
Presents an unabridged reading of George Orwell's political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

Feed me! : an Aesop Fable

1992
A mother lark whose nest in the farmers corn is threatened by the harvest decides to move her nest.

The boy who cried wolf

and other fables
2015
Contains illustrated adaptations of fifteen of Aesop's fables.

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