fables

Retells the events of the famous race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise. Includes a key to the various animals pictured in the illustrations.

A retelling of the La Fontaine fable in which a stork finds a way to outwit the fox that tricked him.

When a town mouse and a country mouse exchange visits, they find that they prefer very different ways of life.

A collection of ten adaptations of Aesop's fables, including "The Mouse and the Lion, " "The Fox and the Grapes, " and "The Tortoise and the Hare.".

Describes the defining characteristics of a fable, discusses where fables come from, why people tell fables, and what role fables play in various cultures, recounts popular fables, and explains how to write a fable.

An illustrated collection of sixteen of Aesop's fables, portrayed in an African setting.

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.

Stories from the Middle East covering a time span of three thousand years, and from Africa.

As his plans are spoiled over and over again, the wolf keeps trying to find his dinner, in this retelling of five well-known stories and fables.