Every child should know the stories of "The Hare and the Tortoise," "Belling the Cat," "The Ants and the Grasshopper," and Aesop's other timeless tales. This splendid gift edition features more than 130 of his beloved fables, enhanced with full-color illustrations and a wonderful CD recording — by a diverse cast of professional readers — of 42 of the most popular stories.
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Great book!,
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I love reading this book to my children. The stories have rich language, yet they're short enough that even young children don't get lost. My 6 and 5 year olds read two of these fables each week for school, and they're learning a lot.
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Good book. My son enjoys listening to the CD and "reading" himself. I appreciate the morals at the end of each story.
11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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far too formal language,
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I bought this for my (almost) 4 year old, and while he likes hearing the stories read to him, he really doesn't understand them well. Not because of their content, but because of the language. The stories are written in extremely formal language, and to modern ears the sentence structure is clunky and the stories unnecessarily difficult to follow. I have to translate the text to modern English just so it doesn't sound like I'm reading a medieval bible.
Stories are great and plentiful, artwork is lovely, but it's just so clumsily written that I'm going to have to purchase another version of the book. (And yes, I know the stories are several thousand years old, but if they've been translated from their original Greek to English, there's no reason the language can't be more modern, too.)
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