Aesop for Children
By Aesop and Milo Winter
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This edition, with 114 color illustrations, was first published in 1919. According to Wikipedia: "Aesop (ca. 620-564 BC), known for the genre of fables ascribed to him, was by tradition born a slave and was a contemporary of Croesus and Solon in the mid-sixth century BC in ancient Greece... The body of work identified as Aesop's Fables was transmitted by a series of later authors writing in both Greek and Latin. Demetrius of Phalerum (ca. 350-ca. 280 BC) made a collection in ten books, probably in prose (Lopson Aisopeion sunagogai) for the use of orators, which has been lost. Next appeared an edition in elegiac verse, cited by the Suda, but the author's name is unknown. Phaedrus, a freedman of Augustus, rendered the fables into Latin. Babrius turned the fables into Greek choliambics in the earlier part of the 3rd century A.D. Another 3rd century author, Titianus, rendered the fables in prose, now lost. Avianus (of uncertain date, perhaps the 4th century) translated 42 of the fables into Latin elegiacs. The 4th century grammarian Dositheus Magister also made a collection of Aesop's Fables, now lost. Aesop's Fables continued to be revised and translated through the ensuing centuries, with the addition of material from other cultures, so that the fables known today in some cases bear little relation to the original fables of Aesop. With a surge in scholarly interest in Aesop and Aesopic fable beginning toward the end of the 20th century, some attempt has been made to determine the nature and content of the very earliest fables which may be most closely linked to the historic Aesop... Milo Winter (August 7, 1888 – August 15, 1956) was a well known book illustrator, who produced works for editions of Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others. He was born in Princeton, Illinois and trained at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute. He lived in Chicago until the early 1950s, when he moved to New York City. From 1947 to 1949, he was the art editor of Childcraft books and from 1949, was the art editor in the film strip division of Silver Burdett Company."
Aesop
Although the three hundred fables in his famous collection are attributed to Aesop, and his name is synonymous with the form, it seems unlikely he was in fact anything more than a legendary figure. While some historical accounts maintain he was a slave with a prodigious talent for story-telling who lived during the sixth century B.C., many believe it unlikely that this whole stock of fables can be attributed to one individual. What does seem clear though is that the fables began their life being orally transmitted before being put down in writing.
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Aesop for Children - Aesop
THE ÆSOP FOR CHILDREN WITH PICTURES BY MILO WINTER
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With 114 color illustrations
RAND McNALLY & CO., CHICAGO
Copyright, 1919, by Rand McNally & Company
THE WOLF AND THE KID
THE TORTOISE AND THE DUCKS
THE YOUNG CRAB AND HIS MOTHER
THE FROGS AND THE OX
THE DOG, THE COCK, AND THE FOX
BELLING THE CAT
THE EAGLE AND THE JACKDAW
THE BOY AND THE FILBERTS
HERCULES AND THE WAGONERTHE KID AND THE WOLF
THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE
THE FOX AND THE GRAPES
THE BUNDLE OF STICKS
THE WOLF AND THE CRANE
THE ASS AND HIS DRIVER
THE OXEN AND THE WHEELS
THE LION AND THE MOUSE
THE SHEPHERD BOY AND THE WOLF
THE GNAT AND THE BULL
THE PLANE TREE
THE FARMER AND THE STORK
THE SHEEP AND THE PIG
THE TRAVELERS AND THE PURSE
THE LION AND THE ASS
THE FROGS WHO WISHED FOR A KING
THE OWL AND THE GRASSHOPPER
THE WOLF AND HIS SHADOW
THE OAK AND THE REEDS
THE RAT AND THE ELEPHANT
THE BOYS AND THE FROGS
THE CROW AND THE PITCHER
THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER
THE ASS CARRYING THE IMAGE
A RAVEN AND A SWAN
THE TWO GOATS
THE ASS AND THE LOAD OF SALT
THE LION AND THE GNAT
THE LEAP AT RHODES
THE COCK AND THE JEWEL
THE MONKEY AND THE CAMEL
THE WILD BOAR AND THE FOX
THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION
THE BIRDS, THE BEASTS, AND THE BAT
THE LION, THE BEAR, AND THE FOX
THE WOLF AND THE LAMB
THE WOLF AND THE SHEEP
THE HARES AND THE FROGS
THE FOX AND THE STORK
THE TRAVELERS AND THE SEA
THE WOLF AND THE LION
THE STAG AND HIS REFLECTION
THE PEACOCK
THE MICE AND THE WEASELS
THE WOLF AND THE LEAN DOG
THE FOX AND THE LION
THE LION AND THE ASS
THE DOG AND HIS MASTER'S DINNER
THE VAIN JACKDAW AND HIS BORROWED FEATHERS
THE MONKEY AND THE DOLPHIN
THE WOLF AND THE ASS
THE MONKEY AND THE CAT
THE DOGS AND THE FOX
THE DOGS AND THE HIDES
THE RABBIT, THE WEASEL, AND THE CAT
THE BEAR AND THE BEES
THE FOX AND THE LEOPARD
THE HERON
THE COCK AND THE FOX
THE DOG IN THE MANGER
THE WOLF AND THE GOAT
THE ASS AND THE GRASSHOPPERS
THE MULE
THE FOX AND THE GOAT
THE CAT, THE COCK, AND THE YOUNG MOUSE
THE WOLF AND THE SHEPHERD
THE PEACOCK AND THE CRANE
THE FARMER AND THE CRANES
THE FARMER AND HIS SONS
THE TWO POTS
THE GOOSE AND THE GOLDEN EGG
THE FIGHTING BULLS AND THE FROG
THE MOUSE AND THE WEASEL
THE FARMER AND THE SNAKE
THE SICK STAG
THE GOATHERD AND THE WILD GOATS
THE SPENDTHRIFT AND THE SWALLOW
THE CAT AND THE BIRDS
THE DOG AND THE OYSTER
THE ASTROLOGER
THREE BULLOCKS AND A LION
MERCURY AND THE WOODMAN
THE FROG AND THE MOUSE
THE FOX AND THE CRAB
THE SERPENT AND THE EAGLE
THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING
THE BULL AND THE GOAT
THE EAGLE AND THE BEETLE
THE OLD LION AND THE FOX
THE MAN AND THE LION
THE ASS AND THE LAP DOG
THE MILKMAID AND HER PAIL
THE WOLF AND THE SHEPHERD
THE GOATHERD AND THE GOAT
THE MISER
THE WOLF AND THE HOUSE DOG
THE FOX AND THE HEDGEHOG
THE BAT AND THE WEASELS
THE QUACK TOAD
THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL
THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG
THE ROSE AND THE BUTTERFLY
THE CAT AND THE FOX
THE BOY AND THE NETTLE
THE OLD LION
THE FOX AND THE PHEASANTS
THE MOTHER AND THE WOLF
THE FLIES AND THE HONEY
THE EAGLE AND THE KITE
THE STAG, THE SHEEP, AND THE WOLF
THE ANIMALS AND THE PLAGUE
THE SHEPHERD AND THE LION
THE DOG AND HIS REFLECTION
THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE
THE BEES AND WASPS, AND THE HORNET
THE LARK AND HER YOUNG ONES
THE CAT AND THE OLD RAT
THE FOX AND THE CROW
THE ASS AND ITS SHADOW
THE MILLER, HIS SON, AND THE ASS
THE ANT AND THE DOVE
THE MAN AND THE SATYR
THE WOLF, THE KID, AND THE GOAT
THE SWALLOW AND THE CROW
JUPITER AND THE MONKEY
THE LION, THE ASS, AND THE FOX
THE LION'S SHARE
THE MOLE AND HIS MOTHER
THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN
THE HARE AND HIS EARS
THE WOLVES AND THE SHEEP
THE COCK AND THE FOX
THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN
THE FISHERMAN AND THE LITTLE FISH
THE FIGHTING COCKS AND THE EAGLE
THE WOLF AND THE KID
img1.jpgThere was once a little Kid whose growing horns made him think he was a grown-up Billy Goat and able to take care of himself. So one evening when the flock started home from the pasture and his mother called, the Kid paid no heed and kept right on nibbling the tender grass. A little later when he lifted his head, the flock was gone.
He was all alone. The sun was sinking. Long shadows came creeping over the ground. A chilly little wind came creeping with them making scary noises in the grass. The Kid shivered as he thought of the terrible Wolf. Then he started wildly over the field, bleating for his mother. But not half-way, near a clump of trees, there was the Wolf!
The Kid knew there was little hope for him.
Please, Mr. Wolf,
he said trembling, I know you are going to eat me. But first please pipe me a tune, for I want to dance and be merry as long as I can.
The Wolf liked the idea of a little music before eating, so he struck up a merry tune and the Kid leaped and frisked gaily.
Meanwhile, the flock was moving slowly homeward. In the still evening air the Wolf's piping carried far. The Shepherd Dogs pricked up their ears. They recognized the song the Wolf sings before a feast, and in a moment they were racing back to the pasture. The Wolf's song ended suddenly, and as he ran, with the Dogs at his heels, he called himself a fool for turning piper to please a Kid, when he should have stuck to his butcher's trade.
Do not let anything turn you from your purpose.
THE TORTOISE AND THE DUCKS
img2.jpgThe Tortoise, you know, carries his house on his back. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot leave home. They say that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that he would not go to Jupiter's wedding, even when especially invited.
After many years, Tortoise began to wish he had gone to that wedding. When he saw how gaily the birds flew about and how the Hare and the Chipmunk and all the other animals ran nimbly by, always eager to see everything there was to be seen, the Tortoise felt very sad and discontented. He wanted to see the world too, and there he was with a house on his back and little short legs that could hardly drag him along.
One day he met a pair of Ducks and told them all his trouble.
We can help you to see the world,
said the Ducks. "Take hold of this stick with your teeth and we will carry you far up in the air where you can