fables

Contains three modern fables in verse: "Yertle the Turtle," "Gertrude McFuzz," and "The Big Brag.".

After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home.

Aesop and his troupe of animal actors teach their audience how others should be treated.

Teaching that it is better to be poor and safe than to be rich and afraid, the familiar Aesop fable is performed by a troupe of animal actors.

A collection of concise stories told by the Greek slave, Aesop.

Sure of winning the race with a tortoise, a hare dawdles about to make it more fun.

The classic tale of a little shepherd boy who thought it was funny to cry wolf twice, but when there really was a wolf, the townspeople refused to heed his calls.

A collection of short retellings of Aesop's fables, each told in two voices designed especially for young children and adults to read together.

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.

Presents retellings of fourteen tales by Aesop, selected and illustrated by artists with developmental disabilities.