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Illustrations and minimal text relate the familiar fable of the race between a slow tortoise and a quick but foolish hare.

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.

Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated...

A retelling of the Aesop fable describing the consequences of the meeting between the slave Androcles and a wounded lion.

Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials.

After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home.

A bored young shepherd cries "wolf" in order to trick the townspeople into coming to his aid, but when a wolf really does appear one day, the townspeople ignore his pleas for help.

Magnus and his friends set sail for the farthest borders of Jotunheim and Niflheim in pursuit of Asgard's greatest threat, Loki's demonic ship full of zombies.

The Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth as the ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos, and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor--and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles--somewhere in the American Southwest. The Greek god Apollo is still in the persona of ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos. Now Lester and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor-- and an Oracle...

This anthology revitalizes 40 of Aesop's lesser-known fables, such as The fisherman and his music and The vain crow.