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Language
English
Description
The calamities that befall the hapless creatures of Aesop's Fables! The fox can't reach his grapes, then gets attacked by biting flies, and loses his tail in a trap. And things don't go much better for the hare, who is chased relentlessly by a hound, barely escaping with his life-only to be beaten in a race by a lowly tortoise. Misfortune turns to mayhem when a wolf is killed by his sweetheart's father, a sheepdog preys on his own flock, and the mouse...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rand McNally
Pub. Date
[1919]
Language
English
Description
According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were, written by a slave named Aesop, who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th-century BCE. Aesop's fables and the Indian tradition as represented by the Buddhist Jataka Tales and the Hindu Panchatantra share about a dozen tales in common although often widely differing in detail. There is, therefore, some debate over whether the Greeks learned these fables from Indian storytellers or the other...
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fables are short, simple stories. They are meant to teach their audience important lessons. Learn more about this type of story and how to write one of your own in How to Tell a Fable, a title in the A Guide to Storytelling series.
15) Donkey trouble
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
19) Aesop's fox
Author
Publisher
Browndeer Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Several fables from Aesop are adapted and woven into a story about the adventures of a fox.