fables

Contains Aesop's fable in which Crane teaches Fox a lesson after he invites her to tea and gives her a dish she cannot use; and a Chinese fable in which Fox must outsmart a tiger to keep from getting eaten.

When Town Mouse and Country Mouse visit each other, they discover they prefer very different ways of life.

The language-loving inhabitants of a South Carolina island interpret the falling of the letter "Z" from a beloved monument as a divine warning not to use the letter any longer. But catastrophe is imminent when the other letters in the monument--which contains the entire alphabet--begin falling one by one.

A simplified version of the familiar fable featuring a kitten who becomes bored with guarding a stack of toys and decides to cry "dog" and watch the villagers come running, until the day a dog is really there and no one answers his call. Includes a note on the history of the tale.

Presents an illustrated collection of nineteen Chinese fokltales.

Make sure you double-knot your shoelaces, Humphrey. Never run. Never jump. And never ever ever sit on a wall. You remember what happened to your uncle... A graphic novel which offers a cautionary tale about caution itself.

"In this hilarious illustrated fable, Anna Van Ogre loses her lovely monstrous looks and is turned into a sickeningly adorable, rosy-cheeked little girl. It starts her on a journey to learn an unforgettable lesson about true beauty"--Provided by publisher.

"Pedro is a shepherd who gets quite bored grazing his sheep. That's why one day it occurs to him to play a trick on his neighbors: he will invent that the wolf is going to eat the sheep. The villagers, half asleep, get up as fast as they can to help him. However, once they arrive, they realize it was a lie. Pedro laughs, but then finds himself in trouble when a wolf really does appear…"--Amazon.

"The bilingual fables in this book are selected from fables from many countries around the world. The lovely and engaging stories [for] . . . children . . . are lessons about courage, kindness ... for children to follow"--Amazon.

"An . . . illustrated fable about a young child's journey into the world beyond the shadow of home, a magical landscape where he discovers the secrets of sharing, connection, and finding peace with the people we love"--Provided by publisher.