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Tadpoles Tales: Aesop's Fables: The Boy Who Cried Wolf: ...

Tadpoles Tales: Aesop's Fables: The Boy Who Cried Wolf: ...

Elizabeth Adams

A simple retelling of a favourite Aesop fable. Whenever the shepherd boy gets bored, he shouts, 'Wolf!' and everybody runs to help. But, one day, a real wolf comes ...
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable

The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable

Eric Blair

In this retelling of the classic Aesop's fable, a bored shepherd boy thinks it's fun to see the villagers run to help him when he cries, "Wolf!
The Boy Who Cried Wolf: An Aesop's Fable

The Boy Who Cried Wolf: An Aesop's Fable

Katherine Scraper

Perform this Aesop's fable about what happens when a boy keeps crying wolf.
Aesop's Fables

Aesop's Fables

Jerry Pinkney

A collection of nearly sixty fables from Aesop includes such familiar ones as "The Grasshopper and the Ants," "The North Wind and the Sun," "Androcles and the Lion," "The Troublesome Dog," and "The Fox and the Stork." 35,000 first printing.
The Donkey in the Lion's Skin: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable

The Donkey in the Lion's Skin: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable

Eric Blair

In a retelling of the classic Aesop's fable, a foolish donkey pretends to be a lion and finds he can scare other animals and people. The donkey is having lots of fun, until he meets the clever fox.
Belling the Cat: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable

Belling the Cat: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable

Eric Blair

In this simple retelling of the classic Aesop's fable, the poor mice live in constant fear of the sneaky cat. The cat is so quiet, the mice can never hear her approach. How will the mice solve their cat problem?
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: A Retelling of Aesop's ...

The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: A Retelling of Aesop's ...

Eric Blair

In this retelling of the classic Aesop's fable, the country mouse is embarrassed by his simple life. Then he visits the city mouse and finds out his life may not be so bad after all!
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books: Aesop

British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books: Aesop

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Fox and the Grapes

Fox and the Grapes

Christopher E. Long

Colorfully illustrated retelling of Aesop's fable about a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Jenny Giles

Aesop, the teller of fables, was born in Thrace (Northern Greece) in the 6th century BC. The illustrator has moved the story closer to the present day. Set in the Balkans in the 18th century.
The Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable Revisited

The Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable Revisited

Nikki Giovanni

Angry that his singing is unappreciated by the Ants who relied on his music to make their summer work easier, Jimmy Grasshopper decides to sue them for lacking respect and not acknowledging his usefulness in their lives. 35,000 first ...
Pancha Tantra

Pancha Tantra

Walton Ford

The book's title derives from The Pancha Tantra, an ancient Indian book of animal tales considered the precursor to Aesop's Fables.
This Is Why You're Single: The Definitive Guide to Getting ...

This Is Why You're Single: The Definitive Guide to Getting ...

Laura Lane

This Is Why You're Single breaks away from your traditional dating guide by taking a page from Aesop's playbook with hilarious modern-day dating fables paired with advice, entertaining quizzes, graphs and illustrations.
The boy who cried wolf: sincerity

The boy who cried wolf: sincerity

Aesop

A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call. Focuses on the meaning of sincerity.
Aesop and the Imprint of Medieval Thought: A Study of Six ...

Aesop and the Imprint of Medieval Thought: A Study of Six ...

Jacqueline de Weever

A Study of Six Fables as Translated at the End of the Middle Ages Jacqueline de Weever. Frontispiece: Folio aii. Prologue. Esopus moralisatus cum bono commento. Spencer Ger. 1497 79–91. Spencer Collection, New York Public Library, ...

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