Fables

About this book

The world's oldest known collection of fables and folk tales. Some of the stories credited to Aesop, a Greek slave who lived in about the sixth century BCE, are known in every corner of the globe, such as 'The Tortoise and the Hare' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. Other familiar tales are 'The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs', 'The Fox and the Grapes' and ''The Ant and the Grasshopper'.

Subjects

• adaptations
• aeronautics
• ascension of the soul in art
• children's fiction
• children's stories
• children's stories, english
• english fables
• fables
• fables, greek--translations into english
• fables--translations into english
• fiction
• flight
• flight in art
• folklore
• folklore, juvenile literature
• greek fables
• history
• juvenile fiction
• juvenile literature
• medieval arts
• mice, fiction
• pa3855.e5 c32 1984
• picture books for children
• rabbits, fiction
• renaissance arts
• themes, motives
• translations from greek
• translations into english
• turtles, fiction
• wolves, fiction