Aesop’s Fables’ found in local antique store has an inscription to a William K. Mitchell to commemorate the Christmas 1882 ...

“Aesop is not a good book for reformers,” a critic once observed, and it’s true that the fables present our natures and social standings as essentially fixed. Foxes are foxy, wolves ...

Tom Paxton, Author, Aesop, Author, Robert Rayevsky, Illustrator Morrow Junior Books $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-688-07360-2 These 10 fables are given a fresh treatment in rhyme, and a new look by Rayevsky.

40 of Aesop's best-known fables are brought to life in adaptations for children aged 5 to 9. Each story is five minutes long and read by an all-star cast including Brenda Blethyn, the late Richard ...