Alamosa Public Library

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

Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.

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...

An illustrated collection of poems, fables, and stories for the nursery, with an emphasis on traditional tales.

Retells the fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.

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

Retells, in verse, thirteen fables from the Greek slave, Aesop.

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."

Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.

A fable explaining how a staring contest left frogs with large eyes.