Customer Reviews

The Fables of Aesop (Dover Children's Evergreen Classics)

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Beware!! The publisher reviews for this one say "unadorned by the clicheed moral epigrams" and "The retellings are brief and do away with the stated morals." The morals ascribed by Aesop are what make his stories. If you take the moral away, you might as well read something else. So if you'd like to see the morals that accompany each story (which is the main reason to read it), and make up your own mind whether or not you want to reinforce them (instead of some editor and publisher deciding for you ahead of time - isn't this called censoring), then buy a different version of Aesop's Fables, like the translation by Sir Roger L'Estrange, or the one published by SeaStar Books.

This edition of Aesop's fables is a beautiful book, but the only thing that is the same as the description and "look inside" is the cover! I was looking for an edition with a hard to find fable and thought I found it here, but alas, the "look inside" the table of contents is from ANOTHER publisher (it DOES say that when you look, but since it uses that contents, one assumes it is basically the same).

The descriptions included are (as stated) from out of print versions of the book and have NO similarity to THIS edition. It is NOT by a husband and wife team, has NO biographical info., contains 82 fables (NOT over 100), has beautiful original black and white line illustrations for each fable (but NO color ones as stated), and yes it DOES CONTAIN A ONE LINE MORAL at the end of each fable.

All in all, it IS a beautiful book, just NOT AS DESCRIBED and the "look within" is NOT FOR THIS EDITION even though it appears it will be, since below that it says you can search within "another" edition.

Excellent collection of fables. I enjoy discussing and finding the morals with my child. This develops his morals internally, rather than increasing his dependency on others for moral footing.

Even if you don't have little ones to read this book to, it is an invaluable edition to anyone's book collection. The illustrations are superb. The fables are legendary!