![]() ![]() Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:. ![]() Great read, even a great read aloud in small doses so each message can be savored. All of the fables have good morals and worthy bits of wisodm, but my favorite tale was the last one about the mouse who journeys to see the ocean and arrives bloodied and bruised but witnesses a sunset that verges on sheer perfection. Animals are cast as the main characters in each fable making the stories that much more relatable. ![]() A full color, full page illustration mirrors each page of text. "A collection of fables with fortune cookie-like words of wisdom at the end of each story. “Lobel has come up with a magical addition to an ancient genre of storytelling.” - Newsweek ![]() Lobel’s fables to endear any child listener.” -The New York Times “There is enough cheerful nonsense in Mr. “The most remarkable of the author-illustrator’s 60-plus bestselling award winners.” - Publishers Weekly A pig flying through marshmallow clouds? A camel pirouetting through the desert? Where else could a reader find such marvelous things but in a fable? From the author-illustrator behind beloved Frog and Toad, Arnold Lobel, comes a collection of humorous, silly fables that will delight readers young and old. ![]()
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