"My name is Aesop! Once I was a slave. Now I am a free man. I have refreshments to sell and stories to tell. Stop for a moment - and enjoy!" Bob Hartman uses all his skills as a storyteller to add humour, irony, action and clever dialogue to these new retellings of ten of Aesop's fables, which he has woven into an entertaining tale about a man who tells stories for a living. Included is a rich mix of familiar and less well-known tales selected for their relevance to the life of children today. Streetwise tricksters get their comeuppance, virtue is rewarded, and readers are shown the benefits of good behaviour - but with the Hartman touch these stories are far from being the typical moral tale. Animated, witty and characterful illustrations echo the flavour of the text.

 

This book has been graded for interest at 7-9 years.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2010 by Lion Hudson Plc .

BOB HARTMAN, author of the best-selling Lion Storyteller Bible, and other titles in the Storyteller series, the highly acclaimed Angels, Angels All Around , and the hilarious Wolf Who Cried Boy. 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.

This book has the following chapters: Contents: Introduction The Mouse and the Lion The Crow and the Jar The Fox and the Grapes The City Mouse and the Country Mouse The Ant and the Dung Beetle The Fox and the Raven The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Dog and the River The Tortoise and the Hare The Wolf and the Dog