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An illustrated adaptation of twelve animal fables first told by the Greek slave Aesop.

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable set in the African Serengeti, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when she rescues the King of the Jungle.

A collection of Aesop's fables with an emphasis on their ability to entertain rather than moralize.

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

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.

Retells the fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.

Turtle challenges her boastful friend Rabbit to a race along First Street in this modern adaptation of the well-known fable.

When country mouse Pipin and his cousin, Toby Town Mouse, visit each other, they discover they prefer very different ways of life, in this story based on one of Aesop's fables.

"Will the Greek god Apollo, cast down to Earth in the pathetic mortal form of a teenager named Lester Papadopoulos, finally regain his place on Mount Olympus? ... Now the former god and his demigod master Meg must follow a prophecy uncovered by Ella the harpy. Lester's final challenge will be at the Tower of Nero, back in New York. Will Meg have a last showdown with her father? Will this helpless form of Apollo have to face his arch-nemesis, Python?...