- Translations into English, Juvenile literature, Greek Fables, Folklore
A collection of nearly sixty fables from Aesop, including 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."
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Classical in form, earnest, spare and plot-driven.
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- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Independently Published, Vicens Vives, Chartwell Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781712261491
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Jerry Pinkney (December 22, 1939 – October 20, 2021) was an American illustrator and writer of children's literature. Pinkney illustrated over 100 books since 1964, including picture books, nonfiction titles and novels. Pinkney's works addressed diverse themes and were usually done in watercolors. In 1994, Pinkney obtained the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for the book John Henry and he has received five Coretta Scott King Awards for illustration. In 2010, he received the Caldecott Medal for his book The Lion & the Mouse. His book A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation (2019), illustrated by Pinkney and written by Barry Wittenstein, won the Orbis Pictus
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