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    The Aesop for ChildrenWith pictures by Milo Winter
    The Aesop for ChildrenWith pictures by Milo Winter
    The Aesop for ChildrenWith pictures by Milo Winter
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    The Aesop for ChildrenWith pictures by Milo Winter

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1984
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    • 3/5
      Beautifully illustrated, with familiar tales from my childhood, this book should have been a sure winner with me.It wasn't.I found myself stopping my read to see how many pages were left. I think there were just too many morality tales too similar to one another to make this enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      Continuing my Aesop project, I recently picked up a copy of Milo Winter's classic collection, originally published in 1919. With 146 fables, and at least one color illustration per page, The Aesop for Children has long been the edition against which all others are judged. Part of the so-called "golden age" of children's illustration, Winter worked on many children's classics in the early years of the twentieth century, but it is primarily this book for which he is remembered.The reader will encounter many old favorites here, from The Fox and the Grapes to The Hare and the Tortoise, as well as many less well-known selections. The language is charming and old-fashioned, although the effect can be disconcerting. Winter seems inordinately fond of the adjective "miry" - I lost count of the number of "miry roads" encountered in his text - and uses "ass" (meaning donkey) frequently. His moral interpretation of the fables can also feel somewhat heavy-handed and dated.However that may be, the fables themselves are as entertaining as ever, and Winter's illustrations are the ideal complement for them. His animal depictions are simply marvelous - simultaneously realistic and emotionally expressive.
    • 1/5
      this is a lovelly bok for make intelligant
    • 5/5
      I read the other version in high school but I probably didn't finish it, so here I am trying to get "closure" with this book. Most stories here were featured in my elementary stories and I thought they were originally shared from local--Filipino--storytellers. Some stories are still unheard of, so I recommend this to kids and young at heart.
      P.S. I picked it at random for my 2021 PopSugar Reading Challenge.
    • 5/5
      Told through very simple tales that use animals who are known for specific characteristics, Aesop teaches over a hundred lessons important truths about life. Each story is very brief and is followed by a statement telling the lesson of the story. Some of the most well known include "Country mouse and City Mouse", "Goose and the Golden Egg", "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", and "The Tortoise and the Hare". The lessons include "Do not let anything turn you from your purpose" and "Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example". All of the lessons in this book are important to think about.
    • 5/5
      I love the Aesop Fables. This edition is great for children, the print is large and the pictures are brilliant.
    • 3/5
      Classic fables about animals by Aesop, with illustrations by Milo Winter from the 1917 edition. The same book I had as a child. A good reference, though you wouldn't want to read the whole thing at one sitting. The kids like the pictures.

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    The Aesop for ChildrenWith pictures by Milo Winter - Milo Winter

    The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Æsop for Children, by Æsop

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    Title: The Æsop for Children

           With pictures by Milo Winter

    Author: Æsop

    Illustrator: Milo Winter

    Release Date: December 2, 2006 [EBook #19994]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ÆSOP FOR CHILDREN ***

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    THE ÆSOP FOR CHILDREN

    THE COCK AND THE FOX Fable, Page 58

    The ÆSOP for

    CHILDREN

    WITH PICTURES BY

    MILO WINTER

    RAND McNALLY & CO.

    CHICAGO

    Copyright, 1919, by

    Rand McNally & Company

    A LIST OF THE FABLES

    THE ÆSOP FOR CHILDREN

    THE WOLF AND THE KID

    There 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 WOLF AND THE KID

    THE TORTOISE AND THE DUCKS

    The 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 see the whole countryside. But keep quiet or you will be sorry.

    The Tortoise was very glad indeed. He seized the stick firmly with his teeth, the two Ducks took hold of it one at each

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