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Aesop's Fables for Children
This book was especially republished to raise funds for Cecily's Fund
33% of the publishers profit from the sale of this book will be donated to Cecily's Fund.
A GREAT READ FOR KIDS!
Within this book lie 148 moral tales simplified for children to teach them wisdom and morals which have been passed down through millennia. Each tale is usually a page or less in length and is suffixed with a simple moral.
In addition there are over 100 beautiful, if not sumptuous, color illustrations from the famous illustrator Milo Winter (1888 1956), who also famously produced illustrations for editions of Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others.
Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, are a collection of moral tales and fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. However, there is another school of academic thought that believes the fables and proverbs of "Aesopic" form existed in both the ancient kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad, as early as the third millennium BC.
The book has been especially republished to help raise funds for the charity CECILIYs FUND assisting and supporting Zambian children orphaned by AIDS.
ABELA PUBLISHING - YESTERDAYS BOOKS raising funds for TODAYS CHARITIES
Excerpt from Aesop's Fables for Children
THE EAGLE AND THE JACKDAW
An Eagle, swooping down on powerful wings, seized a lamb in her talons and made off with it to her nest. A Jackdaw saw the deed, and his silly head was filled with the idea that he was big and strong enough to do as the Eagle had done. So with much rustling of feathers and a fierce air, he came down swiftly on the back of a large Ram. But when he tried to rise again he found that he could not get away, for his claws were tangled in the wool. And so far was he from carrying away the Ram, that the Ram hardly noticed he was there.
The Shepherd saw the fluttering Jackdaw and at once guessed what had happened. Running up, he caught the bird and clipped its wings. That evening he gave the Jackdaw to his children.
"What a funny bird this is!" they said laughing, "what do you call it, father?"
"That is a Jackdaw, my children. But if you should ask him, he would say he is an Eagle."
Do not let your vanity make you overestimate your powers.
Table of Contents for Aesop's Fables for Children
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
| CONTENTS |
| ÆSOPs FABLES for CHILDREN |
| 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 WAGONER |
| THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE |
| THE KID AND THE WOLF |
| 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 TRAVELLERS AND THE PURSE |
| 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 ASS CARRYING THE IMAGE |
| THE BOYS AND THE FROGS |
| THE CROW AND THE PITCHER |
| THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER |
| 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 TRAVELLERS AND THE SEA |
| THE HARES AND THE FROGS |
| THE FOX AND THE STORK |
| THE WOLF AND THE LION |
| THE STAG AND HIS REFLECTION |
| THE PEACOCK |
| THE MICE AND THE WEASELS |
| THE WOLF AND THE LEAN DOG |
| THE DOG AND HIS MASTER'S DINNER |
| THE FOX AND THE LION |
| THE LION AND THE ASS |
| THE VAIN JACKDAW AND HIS BORROWED FEATHERS |
| THE LION AND THE ASS |
| THE MONKEY AND THE DOLPHIN |
| THE WOLF AND THE ASS |
| THE MONKEY AND THE CAT |
| THE DOGS AND THE FOX |
| THE RABBIT, THE WEASEL, AND THE CAT |
| THE DOGS AND THE HIDES |
| 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 MULE |
| THE FOX AND THE GOAT |
| THE CAT, THE COCK, AND THE YOUNG MOUSE |
| THE ASS AND THE GRASSHOPPERS |
| THE WOLF AND THE SHEPHERD |
| THE PEACOCK AND THE CRANE |
| THE FARMER AND THE CRANES |
| THE SICK STAG |
| 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 GOATHERD AND THE WILD GOATS |
| THE SPENDTHRIFT AND THE SWALLOW |
| THE DOG AND THE OYSTER |
| THE ASTROLOGER |
| THREE BULLOCKS AND A LION |
| MERCURY AND THE WOODMAN |
| THE CAT AND THE BIRDS |
| 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 WOLF AND THE SHEPHERD |
| THE ASS AND THE LAP DOG |
| THE MILKMAID AND HER PAIL |
| THE BOY AND THE NETTLE |
| THE MISER |
| THE WOLF AND THE HOUSE DOG |
| THE GOATHERD AND THE GOAT |
| 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 OLD LION |
| THE FOX AND THE PHEASANTS |
| TWO TRAVELLERS AND A BEAR |
| THE FLIES AND THE HONEY |
| THE FOX AND THE MONKEY |
| THE MOTHER AND THE WOLF |
| THE EAGLE AND THE KITE |
| THE STAG, THE SHEEP, AND THE WOLF |
| THE ANIMALS AND THE PLAGUE |
| THE PORCUPINE AND THE SNAKES |
| 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 SWALLOW AND THE CROW |
| THE ANT AND THE DOVE |
| THE MAN AND THE SATYR |
| THE WOLF, THE KID, AND THE GOAT |
| 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 |
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