Fables

By Roger L'Estrange, Percy J. Billinghurst, Joseph Jacobs, Aesop

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Flight in art, Flight, Rabbits, fiction, History, Renaissance Arts, Turtles, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fables--translations into english, Fables, greek--translations into english, Children's stories, Themes, motives, Fiction, Translations into English, Folklore, Adaptations, Children's fiction, Folklore, juvenile literature, Children's stories, English, English Fables, Pa3855.e5 c32 1984, Picture books for children, Medieval Arts, Wolves, fiction, Ascension of the soul in art, Greek Fables, Fables, Mice, fiction, Translations from Greek, Aeronautics

Description: The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, such as 'The Tortoise and the Hare' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. Other familiar tales are 'The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs', 'The Fox and the Grapes' and ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'.