A beautiful gift edition of Aesop's Fables featuring eight classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stunning illustrations.

Meet the town mouse and his country cousin, discover what happens to the boy who cried wolf one too many times and find out just how the tortoise beat the boastful hare.

Bringing together the incredible talents of award-winning illustrator, Marta Altes and author and poet, Elli Woollard, this unique collection of Aesop's Fables is a fresh and funny take on an enduring classic. Richly illustrated throughout by Booktrust Time to Read favourite, Marta Altes, author of Little Monkey, this is perfect for new and younger readers and will delight children and adults alike.

A perfect companion title to Just So Stories, created by the same winning team.

Stories include:
Two Travellers and the Bear
The Hare and the Tortoise
The Boy who cried Wolf
The Donkey in the Lion's Skin
The Dog and his Reflection
The Baboon and the Fox
The Peacock and the Crane
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

This book has been graded for interest at 5-9 years.

There are 96 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2019 by Pan Macmillan .

Elli Woollard grew up in London, and now lives there with her four crazy but wonderful children, her meteorologist husband and two guinea pigs. Slightly more excitingly, she also lived for seven years in Thailand. A graduate in social anthropology, she has worked variously as a teacher of English as a foreign language, a copywriter, an editor and a freelance Thai to English translator. Woozy the Wizard is her first book.

This book has the following chapters:

• Chapter - 1: Two Travellers and the Bear
• Chapter - 2: The Hare and the Tortoise
• Chapter - 3: The Boy who cried Wolf
• Chapter - 4: The Baboon and the Fox
• Chapter - 5: The Dog and his Reflection
• Chapter - 6: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
• Chapter - 7: The Peacock and the Crane
• Chapter - 8: The Donkey in the Lion's Skin