The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables Hardcover – Illustrated, October 2, 2007

With this latest pop-up book the authors Chris Beatrice and Bruce Whatley have out done themselves in illustrating the classic Aesop Fables! Each story is breathtakingly illustrated with lush colour pictures and paper engineering by Kees Moerbeek! With the GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG the surprises that the farmer and the wife find are well illustrated and presented with each turn of the pop-up page! And when the farmer has a look of concern over what his wife will do next as she decides to kill the goose to get all the eggs at once a flip of the page reveals the goose has been killed and the animals look sad at the loss! These smaller pop-ups reveal the full story while the large center piece shows the goose in full glory before her demise!In THE FOX AND THE CROW a spectacular tree stands in full view with the fox at bottom and the crow at the very top! When the fox compliments the crow and says I bet your voice is preetier then the other birds, the crow agrees and lets out a caw, caw sound and the fox gobbles up the cheese that the crow had in it's beak! The fox said, "You do have a beautiful voice but you don't seem to have a brain!"In the familar story The TORTOISE AND THE HARE the pop-ups present the wily hare who is outdone by the tortoise in the last pop-up page! The next 5 storys are presented with one pop-up for each story on a 2 page spread! THE HORSE AND THE STAG, THE DOG AND HIS BONE, TWO TRAVELERS AND A BEAR, THE WIND AND THE SUN, and THE FOX AND THE GRAPES each have an approprite pop-up to illustrate their tale. At times the pop-ups are tricky to fold back in but they fold in well for the most part!The next to last story is THE LION AND THE MOUSE with the tale starting out with the lion catching a mouse who has woken him up! When the mouse suggests he might help the lion some day the lion lets him go! The center pop-up shows the lion captured in a net and the last pop-up shows the lion freed by the mouse for a happy ending!Finnaly there is THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER with this pop-up tale well presented and Aesop is presented as a boy surrounded by his animal friends! Highly recommended!

Fast shipping. Exactly what I was looking for. Very pleased with the book.

Book was in great condition and still has wonderful Lessons and Tales 😉

Great write up of the fables. I read it to my 5 and 7 year old, they love the one with the bear and the travelers.Mr. Pinkney puts the "moral" at the end of the story which sums up the learning point very well. Real short and too the point. Though some of the "morals" at the end of each tale are a little difficult to describe to little ones, it takes little effort to make them work.Great read with plenty of short stories and big elaborate pictures the kids love.Only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is some morals are written a bit beyond the 1st or 2nd grade level, when the rest of the work in the book is all at the level. Its not an exhaustive either, there are more Aesop fables that aren't included, but it works for what I'm using it to do. Great for bedtime stories.

This is the 1912 translation made by Vernon Jones. It is still very understandable and there were only a few words that I needed to look up. Thanks to the Kindle's dictionary it is very simple.I'd forgotten how short each fable was. They average only 1 - 2 paragraphs. I can see the value of fables for teaching our children principles in a very succinct manner. There are roughly 284 fables in this translation.I once again appreciate the Kindle Freebies. The only drawback with this version is that its table of contents is not hyperlinked, which is not unusual for a freebie. I highly recommend this book to any interested in fables. I plan on reading them to my grandkids when the time comes. Though some of the fables are related to mythology, I think many of the lessons are still applicable.

The CD is an excellent addition to this book! While the book contains over 100 stories the CD covers 42 of the best of them and references the title of each story and the page it can be found in the book.For parents who would like to convert the disc to MP3 files and add the story/track information here is a list of are all the stories on the CD. If you use J. River Media Center the track information has also been uploaded to their servers so it should automatically add it when you rip/convert the CD to MP3 files.Aesop's Fables for Children CD TracklistTrack 1: IntroductionTrack 2: The Wolf And The KidTrack 3: The Frog And The OxTrack 4: The Dog, The Cock And The FoxTrack 5: Belling The CatTrack 6: Hercules And The WagonerTrack 7: The Town Mouse And The Country MouseTrack 8: The Fox And The GrapesTrack 9: The Bundle Of SticksTrack 10: The Lion And The MouseTrack 11: The Shepherd Boy And The WolfTrack 12: The Farmer And The StorkTrack 13: The Travelers And The PurseTrack 14: The Owl And The GrasshopperTrack 15: The Oak And The ReedsTrack 16: The Rat And The ElephantTrack 17: The Crow And The PitcherTrack 18: The Ants And The GrasshopperTrack 19: The Ass And The Load Of SaltTrack 20: The Ass, The Fox, And The LionTrack 21: The Fox And The StorkTrack 22: The Wolf And The Lean DogTrack 23: The Lion And The AssTrack 24: The Monkey And The DolphinTrack 25: The Rabbit, The Weasel, And The CatTrack 26: The HeronTrack 27: The Cock And The FoxTrack 28: The Fox And The GoatTrack 29: The Cat, The Cock, And The Young MouseTrack 30: The Goose And The Golden EggTrack 31: The Mouse And The WeaselTrack 32: The Goatherd And The Wild GoatsTrack 33: Mercury And The WoodmanTrack 34: The Serpent And The EagleTrack 35: The Wolf In Sheep's ClothingTrack 36: The Dog And His ReflectionTrack 37: The Hare And The TortoiseTrack 38: The Fox And The Crow]Track 39: The Ant And The DoveTrack 40: The Wolf, The Kid, And The GoatTrack 41: The Lion's ShareTrack 42: The North Wind And The SunJ. River Media Center: [...]