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Aesop

Author

(620 B.C. - 564 B.C.)

Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist and story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables.



Bibliography

Aesop’s Fables (1911)

A large collection of traditional fables. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Author(s): Aesop
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

Aesop’s Fables (1927)

A selection of Aesop’s fables with black and white illustrations by Louis Rhead and color by Frank Schoonover.

Author(s): Aesop
Illustrator(s): Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover

Aesop’s Fables (1941)

Here are all the old familiar fables from The Hare and the Tortoise to The Fox and the Crow and many others that are not as well known.  This is The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf edition.  It is a smaller format than the original Heritage ... View More

Author(s): Aesop
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Aesop's Fables (1941)

Here are all the old familiar fables in modern English, from the Hare and the Tortoise to the Boy Who Called Wolf. This is the original large format edition printed in three colors of ink on heavy Worthy paper.

Author(s): Aesop
Munro Leaf
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Aesop’s Fables (2000)

Sixty famous and familiar fables.

Author(s): Aesop
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

The Animal Story Book (1901)

One of twenty volumes of the Young Folks’ Library, Thomas Bailey Aldrich editor-in-chief. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

The Lion & the Mouse (2009)

The mightiest need not disdain the aid of the least.

Author(s): Aesop
Illustrator(s): Jerry Pinkney

Caldecott Medal
Caldecott Medal - 2010

Some of Aesop’s Fables with Modern Instances (1883)

Twenty fables with illustrations of the original fable and a cartoon of a modern application. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Aesop
Illustrator(s): Randolph Caldecott

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