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Author
Language
English
Description
Aesop was an Ancient Greek story-teller and slave, famed and cherished for his short fables that often involve personified animals. In the renowned collection of works that is Aesop's Fables, he weaves moral education and entertainment together into tales that have been enjoyed by many, many generations. A lot of the stories in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (giving us the term "sour grapes"), The Tortoise and the
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Publisher
CrissCross AppleSauce
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
30 pages ;
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text follow a blackbird who learns an important lesson when, after being injured while seeking more beautiful feathers, is ignored by two travelers but aided by the third.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this retelling of the classic Aesop fable, hardworking ants stock up for the winter while a fun-loving grasshopper plays all year long, until the cold weather arrives, and he realizes his mistake in not planning ahead.
Publisher
SeaStar Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
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." Selected by Jerry Pinkney.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Each short poem invites two readers to read their own parts, and then read the passage in the central column together, retells thirteen of Aesop's fables, including "The Lion and the Mouse," "The Grasshopper and the Ant," and "The Hare and the Tortoise."
10) Fables
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper & Row
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the stories of a selfish lion, lovesick ostrich, greedy hippopotamus, vain rhinoceros, proud camel, the timid duck sisters, and others, and the lessons that they learned.
11) Fables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arnold Lobel presents his own humorous fables, each with a fresh and unexpected moral.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A deluxe edition with special endpapers and a yellow spine. From British illustrator, artist, and author Charlie Mackesy comes a journey for all ages that explores life's universal lessons, featuring 100 colour and black-and-white drawings. 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' asked the mole. "Kind," said the boy. Charlie Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful book, following the tale of a curious boy, a greedy...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this variation of the old tale of the ant who gathers food for winter, and the grasshopper who does not prepare, there is an unexpected ending.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on the classic fable, a crocodile and a scorpion attempt to cross a river without giving in to their natural instincts.
19) The burning
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A great battle is on the horizon, and Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies and study the grim art of war.
Author
Series
A gifted clans novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Hattie Oh casts a dangerous spell so her adopted sister, Riley, will get a share of her inherited magic, Riley must undertake a near-impossible quest to save Hattie from death.