Aesop's Fables, Retold by Elli Woollard

A beautiful gift edition of Aesop''s Fables featuring eight classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stunning illustrations. Bringing together the incredible talents of award-winning illustrator and Booktrust Time to Read favourite, Marta Altes and author and poet, Elli Woollard, this unique collection of Aesop''s Fables is a fresh and funny take on an enduring classic. Richly illustrated throughout by Marta Altes, author of Little Monkey , this is perfect for new and younger readers and will delight children and adults alike. Meet the town mouse and his country cousin, discover what happens to the boy who cried wolf one too many times and find out just how the tortoise beat the boastful hare. A perfect companion title to Rudyard Kipling''s Just So Stories, retold by Elli Woollard , created by the same winning team. Stories include: Two Travellers and the Bear The Hare and the Tortoise The Boy who cried Wolf The Donkey in the Lion''s Skin The Dog and his Reflection The Baboon and the Fox The Peacock and the Crane The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Product details

• Authors: Elli Woollard, Woollard Elli, Bethan Woollvin
• Assisted by: Marta Altes (Illustration), Altes Marta (Illustration)
• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2019
• EAN: 9781509886661
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-8666-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 277 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Aziza's Secret Fairy Door
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Picture books; Classics, Short Stories, Animal stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Early Learning: Verse & Rhymes, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Early years: verse, rhymes and wordplay, Short stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Short stories, Stories in Verse (see also Poetry), Legends, Myths, Fables / General