La Fontaine, Jean de

Contains English translations of thirty-six fables by seventeenth-century French author Jean de La Fontaine, and includes illustrations by modern American artist Alexander Calder.

A contest between two friends proves that strength alone does not guarantee a victory.

A retelling of the La Fontaine fable in which a small rat is the only animal capable of saving the life of the King of the Beasts.

A rich man gives a shoemaker a bag of gold to keep him from singing, and the shoemaker learns a lesson about money and happiness.

A retelling of the La Fontaine fable in which a small rat is the only animal capable of saving the life of the King of the Beasts.

Retells the events of the famous race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

A collection of fables.

A retelling of the fable in which the North Wind and the Sun had a wager on which of them could persuade the horseman to remove his fine new cloak--Publisher.

A retelling of the fable about the small rat who repaid the lion's kindness by rescuing him from a trap--H.W. Wilson.