Discover two fabulous fables in accessible comic book form: The Ants and the Grasshopper shows us why it is good to work hard and prepare when Grasshopper is left with no food for winter; Meanwhile Crow learns a valuable lesson in the folly of vanity when she loses her cheese to a cunning fox.

First Graphic Readers is an original approach to the perennially popular Aesop's fables. These much loved, read again stories have been transformed into a fun graphic form perfect for children learning to read alone. Beautiful artwork accompanies carefully controlled narrative text in panels and speech bubbles, with text large enough for the young reader to read themselves. Every book in the series contains two stories, each with its own illustration style which also adds a compendium feel. Perfect for 4-6 year olds.

This book is part of a book series called First Graphic Readers .

There are 24 pages in this book. This is a comic book. This book was published 2016 by Hachette Children's Group .

Amelia Marshall also writes under the name Amelia Penn. She loves writing and has written a range of books for children from funny fairy tales to facts about sharks. She currently lives in South West London with her son and partner. Barbara Nascimbeni is the popular illustrator of the picture books SMALL BROWN DOG'S BAD REMEMBERING DAY (0 333 74539 6), ARCHIE HATES PINK (0 333 90082 0) and RUDE MULE (0 333 96017 3). She has illustrated two sets of board books for Macmillan and her books have been sold into ten countries. 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. Josh Webb has always loved animals, and he lives on a farm in Sussex. He has llamas, cows, horses, sheep and pigs, as well as two cats and three dogs. Unfortunately, he has never caught them talking to each other, but he knows that they do when he's not around. Josh would love to live in a safari park, and Silly Safari is his way of imagining what happens in them. Gabriele Antonini has illustrated some Reading Corner Phonic books and several young fiction titles, such as The Hungry Little Monkey and Who Ate All the Pies? This is his first Banana.