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...

In this retelling of the Indian fable, seven blind mice discover different parts of an elephant and argue about its appearance.

Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.

The noted illustrator presents thirteen of Aesop's most familiar fables.

"The first female translator of the epic into English in over sixty years, Stephanie McCarter addresses accuracy in translation and its representation of women, gendered dynamics of power, and sexual violence in Ovid's classic. Ovid's Metamorphoses is an epic poem, but one that upturns almost every convention. There is no main hero, no central conflict, and no sustained objective. What it is about (power, defiance, art, love, abuse, grief, rape, war,...

A modern rhyme retells the events of the famous race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

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

An illustrated collection of twenty traditional fables including "The Hares And The Frogs, " "The Cat And The Mouse, " and "The Wolf And The Heron.