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The Caldecott Aesop twenty fables : a facsimile of the 1883 edition

Twenty familiar fables with drawings by a well-known nineteenth-century English illustrator.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aesop
Other Authors:	Caldecott, Alfred, 1850-1936, Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, c1978.
Subjects:	Fables > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Twenty familiar fables with drawings by a well-known nineteenth-century English illustrator.
Item Description:	Reprint of the ed. published by Macmillan, New York, under title: Some of Aesop's fables.
Physical Description:	79 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	0385126530 0385126549 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:	Though many modern scholars dispute his existence, Aesop's life was chronicled by first century Greek historians who wrote that Aesop, or Aethiop, was born into Greek slavery in 620 B.C. Freed because of his wit and wisdom, Aesop supposedly traveled throughout Greece and was employed at various times by the governments of Athens and Corinth. Some of Aesop's most recognized fables are The Tortoise and the Hare, The Fox and the Grapes, and The Ant and the Grasshopper. His simple but effective morals are widely used and illustrated for children. (Bowker Author Biography)