A GREAT READ FOR KIDS! Within this book lie 148 moral tales simplified for children to teach them wisdom and morals which have been passed down through millennia. Each tale is usually a page or less in length and is suffixed with a simple moral In addition there are over 100 beautiful, if not sumptuous, color illustrations from the famous illustrator Milo Winter (1888 - 1956), who also famously produced illustrations for editions of Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, are a collection of moral tales and fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. However, there is another school of academic thought that believes the fables and proverbs of Aesopic form existed in both the ancient kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad, as early as the third millennium BC. The book has been especially republished to help raise funds for the charity CECILIY's FUND assisting and supporting Zambian children orphaned by AIDS. ABELA PUBLISHING YESTERDAYS BOOKS raising funds for TODAYS CHARITIES

 

This book is part of a book series called Aesops Fables .

There are 290 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Abela Publishing .

Milo Winter was born in Princeton, Illinois, in 1888. A renowned illustrator during the early nineteenth century, he is known for his work on Arabian Nights , Alice in Wonderland , Gulliver's Travels , A Christmas Carol , and Aesop's Fables . He worked most of life as an illustrator of children's books for various publishers. Winter died in New York City in 1956. AESOP probably lived in the middle part of the sixth century BC. A statement in Herodotus gives grounds for thinking that he was a slave.