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Fables

1980
Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.

Once a mouse--

a fable cut in wood
1961
As it changes from mouse, to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain.

The boy who cried "Wolf!"

1997
Uses rebuses to retell the Aesop fable about a young boy whose false cries for help bring him to an unfortunate end.

Donkey trouble

1995
In this retelling of the traditional fable, a kind but simple man and his grandson, on their way to market with their donkey, find it impossible to please everyone they meet.

The town mouse and the country mouse

1996
When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they find they prefer very different ways of life.

Feed me!

an Aesop fable
1996
A mother lark whose nest in the farmer's corn is threatened by the coming harvest uses wisdom in deciding when to move her babies.

Town mouse, country mouse

1994
After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home.

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