The Fables of Aesop Author:Aesop This famous old edition of Aesop, with its ever-charming illustrations that light up the pointed morals, is still the most readable one. Here is the essential Aesop, to be transmitted across the generations, from parent to child. For these Fables are meant to be read aloud, with a child close beside to look at pictures and print. The old magic c... more »annot help but work: we learn again, though imperishably naive and clever stories, of the shifting but always discernible difference between what is right and what is wrong.« less