Fables

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

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

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'.