Aesop's Fables

by Lisbeth Zwerger (Selected by), Aesop (From an Idea by)

Overview

Lisbeth Zwerger's gorgeously illustrated edition features 12 Aesop favorites.

Featuring twelve beloved stories, including:

TOWN MOUSE AND COUNTRY MOUSE, THE MAN AND THE SATYR, THE SHEPHERD'S BOY AND THE WOLF, THE FOX AND THE GRAPES, THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE, THE FOX AND THE CROW and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780735820685
Publisher:	NorthSouth Books
Publication date:	04/01/2006
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	702,669
Product dimensions:	9.62(w) x 8.52(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Lisbeth Zwerger has been accorded nearly every prize that can be given, including the highest international award for lifetime achievement, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. Since 1981 she has devoted her extraordinary talents to children’s literature, to stories as charming and picturesque as her native Vienna. Always surprising, always engaging, her artwork combines technical mastery with an insight and gentleness so rare and captivating that she has been correctly called one of the finest illustrators of the twentieth century.

Though many modern scholars dispute his existence, Aesop's life was chronicled by first century Greek historians who wrote that Aesop, or Aethiop, was born into Greek slavery in 620 B.C. Freed because of his wit and wisdom, Aesop supposedly traveled throughout Greece and was employed at various times by the governments of Athens and Corinth. Some of Aesop's most recognized fables are The Tortoise and the Hare, The Fox and the Grapes, and The Ant and the Grasshopper. His simple but effective morals are widely used and illustrated for children.

Editorial Reviews

A dozen of the instructive tales appear in Aesop's Fables by Lisbeth Zwerger, including such favorites as "The Hare and the Tortoise,'' along with lesser-known parables such as "The Hares and the Frogs.'' Of the original edition published in 1989, PW wrote, "The text is crisp and succinct, the ink-and-wash illustrations are delicate yet often sharply revealing of character or mood." Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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