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Selected Bibliography of Aesop's Fables

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A fable is a simple tale intended to convey a certain moral or truth. Although fables are popular in many cultures around the world, the most enduring fables have undoubtedly been those of Aesop. Aesop is believed to have been a Greek slave who lived in the first part of the 6th century B.C. His talent for entertaining people with fables eventually won him his freedom and made him an advisor to kings. *

This bibliography highlights the collection of Aesop's Fables in the Education and Social Science Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The selections listed here represent only a portion of the Aesop's Fables that can be found throughout the campus library system. To search for more Aesop’s fables in the online catalog:

• Search for Aesop's or Aesop as a keyword.
• Search for the individual title as title/keyword (e.g. hare tortoise).
• Browse the author Aesop.
• Browse the title of the individual fables (e.g. Hare and the Tortoise).
• Browse the subject Aesop’s Fables, or more broadly, browse the subject Fables .

* Aesop. Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT, 1964.

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Collections of Aesop's Fables

The collections of Aesop's fables in this list that have been arranged alphabetically by main entry under title or author as they appear in the online catalog. Within this alphabetical arrangement, books without authors have been placed before books with designated authors. Books with identical titles and authors have been arranged chronologically.

Q.S. 398.2 Ae88aw 1984	Aesop for Children. New York: Jedediah Clauss & Sons, 1984. (Illus. by Milo Winter.)
Q.S. 398.2 Ae88ah 1954	Aesop’s Fables. Garden City, New York: Garden City Books, 1954. (Selected and edited by Laura Harris; illus. by Tony Palazzo.)
Q.S. 398.2 Ae88aL 1970	Aesop’s Fables. New York: Windmill Books, 1970. (Illus. by Jacob Lawrence.)
S. 398 Ae8th	Aesop's Fables. New Delhi: Hemkunt Press, 1979. (Retold by Vernon Thomas. Illus. by Reboti Bhushan.)

S. 398 Ae8ho	Aesop's Fables. New York: Viking Press, 1981. (Illus. by Heidi Holder.)
Q.S. 398 Ae8a 1989	Aesop's Fables. New York: Barrons, 1989. (Illus. by Fulvio Testa.)
S. 398.2 Ae88z	Aesop's Fables. Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio, 1989. (Illus. by Lisbeth Zwerger.)
Q.S. 398.2 Ae88aa 1990	Aesop's Fables. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 1990. (Compiled by Russell Ash and Bernard Higton.)
S. 398.2 Ae88z 1991	Aesop's Fables. Saxonville, MA: Picture Book Studio, 1991. (Illus. by Lisbeth Zwerger.)
S. 398.2 Ae88r	Aesop's Fables: A New Translation. New York: Avenel, 19--. (By V.S. Vernon Jones; Illus. by Arthur Rackham; a fascimile of the 1912 ed.)
S. 398 Ae8s	Aesop. Aesop Fables. New York: Hyperion, 1944. (Text by Elizabeth Stones. Illus. by Emery Kelen.)
S. 398 Ae8mc	Aesop. Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1964. (Selected by John J. McKendry. Note: The illustrations are virtual facsims. of the original prints in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
S. 398.2452 Ae88 1949	Aesop. Aesop's fables. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1949. (From translations of Thomas James and George Tyler Townsend. Illus. by Glen Rounds.)
S. 398 Ae8a 1947	Aesop. Aesop's Fables. New York: Viking Press, 1947. (Edited and Illus. by Boris Artzybasheff).
S. 398.2452 Ae88 1961	Aesop. Aesop's Fables. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1961. (Translated by John Warrington. Illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe.)

S. 398 Ae8wi	Aesop. Aesop's Fables. New York: Airmont, 1965. (Retold by Blanche Winder.)
S. 398 Ae8ha	Aesop. Aesop's Fables. New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1985. (Selected and illus. by Michael Hague.)
S. 398 Ae8le	Aesop. Aesop's Fables. New York: Heritage Press, 1946. (By Munro Leaf. Illus. by Robert Lawson.)
S. 398 Ae8te	Aesop. Complete Fables. Penguin, 1998.
S. 398.2 Ae88c	Aesop. Fables of Aesop, According to Sir Roger L'estrange. New York: Dover, 1967. (Illus. by Alexander Calder. Unabridged reproduction of 1931 edition.)
S.398.2 Ae88aj 1966	Aesop. The Fables of Aesop, Selected, Told Anew, and Their History Traced by Joseph Jacobs. New York: Schocken Books, 1966. (Illus. by Richard Heighway.)
S. 398.2 Ae88f	Aesop. Forty Fabulous Fables of Aesop. Toledo, OH: Promethean, 1982. (by Richard M. Krill. Illus. by Peggy Grant)
S. An78a	Anno, Mitsumasa. Anno's Aesop: A Book of Fables. New York: Orchard Books, 1989.
S. 398.2452 B141a	Bader, Barbara. Aesop & Company: With Scenes from his Legendary Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. (Illus. by Arthur Giesert.)
Q.S. 398.22 B262f	Barnes-Murphy, Frances. The Fables of Aesop. 1st ed. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1994. (Illus. by Rowan Barnes-Murphy.)
S. 398.2 B43b	Bennett, Charles H. Bennett's Fables from Aesop and Others, Translated into Human Nature. New York: Viking Press,1978.
S. B4683a	Beyer, Ernestine. Aesop with a Smile. Chicago: Reilly & Lee,1960. (Illus. by Vee Guthrie.)
SE. B4772d	Bierhorst, John. Dr. Coyote: A Native American's Aesop's Fables. New York: MacMillan, 1987. (Illus. by Wendy Watson.)
Q.S. 398.2 C1922t	Carle, Eric. Twelve Tales from Aesop. New York: Philomel Books, 1980.
Q.S. 398.21 C192e 1988	Carle, Eric. Eric Carle's treasury of classic stories for children by Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm. New York: Orchard Books,1988. (Illus. by Henry Syverson.)
SE. C498	City Mouse-Country Mouse and Two More Mouse Tales from Aesop. New York: Scholastic, 1987. (Illus. by John Wallner.)
S. 811 C639a	Coblentz, Stanton Arthur. Aesop’s Fables. Norwalk, CT: C. R. Gibson, 1968. (Drawings by Henry Syverson.)
SE. C85a FACSIM.	Crane, Walter. The Baby's Own Aesop: Being the Fables, Condensed in Rhyme, With Portable Morals. Tokyo: Holp Shuppan, 1981. (Illus. by Edmund Evans.)
S. 398 Ae8do	Dolch, Edward W., Marguerite Dolch, and Beulah F. Jackson. Aesop's Stories for Pleasure Reading. Champaign, IL: Garrard Press, 1951. (Illus. by M. Dolch.)
S. 398 Ae8de	Fables from Aesop. London: Blackie, 1964. (Illus. by Cyril Deakins.)
S. 398 Ae8L	The Fables of Aesop. Boston: Gambit, 1975. (Selected and illus. by David Levine. Translated by Patrick and Justina Gregory.)
Q.S. 398.24 G131t	Galdone, Paul. Three Aesop Fox Fables. New York: Clarion Books, 1971.
S. 372.6 Ae88 v. 1-4	Hegeman, Dr. Kathryn T. Aesop's Fables: My Book about Reading, Writing, Thinking: Creative Approaches to Language. Monroe, New York: Trillium Press, 1988.
S. 398 Ae8jo	Jones, Harold. Tales from Aesop. London: MacRae Books, 1981.
SE. K416ja	Kent, Jack. Jack Kent’s Fables of Aesop. New York: Parent’s Magazine Press, 1972.
SE. K416mo	Kent, Jack. More Fables of Aesop. New York: Parents’ Magazine Press, 1974.
S. 398.2452 M132a	McClintock, Barbara. Animal Fables from Aesop. Boston: Godine, 1991.
Q.S. 398.2 M1637e	McFarland, John B. The Exploding Frog and Other Fables from Aesop. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981. (llus. By James Marshall.)
S. 398.2 M177a	McGovern, Ann. Aesop's Fables. New York: Scholastic, 1988. (Illus. by A. M. McClaskey.)
S. 821 M582a	Michie, James. Aesop's Fables. London: Cape, 1989. (Illus. by John Vernon Lord.)
S. 398.24 P289a	Paxton, Tom. Aesop's Fables. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1988. (Illus. by Robert Rayevsky.)
SE. P289b	Paxton, Tom. Belling the Cat and Other Aesop's Fables. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1990. (Illus. by Robert Rayevsky.)
Q.SE. P289BL	Paxton, Tom. Birds of a Feather and Other Aesop’s Fables. New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1993. (Illus. by Robert Rayevsky.)
S. 811 R259f	Rees, Ennis. Fables from Aesop. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. (Illus. by J. J. Grandville.)
S. 398.2452 R259f 1985	Reeves, James. Fables From Aesop. New York: P. Bedrick Books, 1985. (Illus. by Maurice Wilson.)
S. 398.2452 R259f 1962	Reeves, James. Fables from Aesop. New York: Henry Z. Walck, 1962. (Illus. by Maurice Wilson.)
SE. R361o	Rice, Eve. Once in a Wood: Ten Tales from Aesop. New York: Greenwillow, 1979.
S. 398.2 Sa582h	San Jose, Christine. The Hidden Picture Book of Aesop’s Fables. Honesdale, PA.: Boyds Mills Press; (New York): Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1995. (Illus. by Charles Jordan.)
Q.S. 398.2452 T428a:E	Thuswaldner, Werner. Aesop’s Fables. New York: North-South Books, 1994. (Illus. by Gisela Durr. Translated by Anthea Bell.)
S. 398 W332a	Watson, Carol. Aesop's Fables. Tulsa, OK: Hayes Books, 1982. (Illus. by Nick Price.)
SE. W5823a	White, Anne Terry. Aesop’s Fables. New York: Random House, 1964. (Illus. by Helen Siegl.)
Q.S. 811 Y78s	Yolen, Jane. A Sip of Aesop. New York: Blue Sky Press, 1995. (Illus. by Karen Barbour.)

Single Illustrated Tales from Aesop

This list is composed of single, illustrated adaptations of some of the more common fables from Aesop. The tales have been grouped by the original Aesop's fable and then subarranged alphabetically by author.

Q.SE. So24a	Aesop’s Fox. Sogabe, Aki. San Diego: Harcourt, 1999.
SE. K99es	The Ant and the Grasshopper, A Georgian Folk Tale. Moscow.
S. 811 C48j	John J. Plenty and Fiddler Dan, a New Fable of the Grasshopper and the Ant. Ciardi, John. Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott, 1963. (Illus. By Madeline Gekiere.)
SE. Ae88h	The Hare and the Tortoise. Aesop. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. (Illus. by Paul Galdone.)
Q.S. 398.2 C2792h	The Hare and the Tortoise. Castle, Caroline. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1985. (Illus. by Peter Weevers.)
SE. D85h	The Hare and the Tortoise and La Liebre y la Tortuga. DuBois, William Pene and Lee Po. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1972. (Text in English and Spanish).
SE.Ae88h 1981	The Hare and the Tortoise. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1981. (Illus. By Arthur Friedman.)
Q.SE. J712h	The Hare and the Tortoise. Jones, Carol. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.
S.398.2 St47t	The Tortoise and the Hare: An Aesop's Fable. Stevens, Jant. New York: Holiday House, 1984.
Q.SE.W212h 1999	The Hare and the Tortoise: a Fable From Aesop. Ward, Helen. Brookfield, CT: 1999.
SE.W64h	The Hare and the Tortoise. Wildsmith, Brian. New York: Franklin Watts, 1967.
Q.SE.J712L	The Lion and the Mouse. Jones, Carol. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
SE.L5883b	The Boat Contest: Featuring Aesop's The Lion and the Mouse. Lewis, Sari. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1993.
SE.Ae88L	The Lion and the Mouse. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1981. (Illus. by Bob Dole.)

Q.S.398.2 W661L	The Lion and the Mouse: An Aesop's Fable. Wood, A. J. Brookfield, CT.: Millbrook Press, 1995. (Illus. by Ian Andrews.)
S.398.2452 L661	The Lion and the Mouse: An Aesop Fable. Young, Ed. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979.
SE.Y84o	The Other Bone. Young, Ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
SE.L528s	The Sun and the Wind: An Aesop Fable. Lehn, Cornelia. Newton, KS: Faith and Life Press, 1983. (Illus. by Robert W. Regier.)
SE.B538t	Town Mouse and Country Mouse. Biro, Val. Bothell, WA.: Wright Group, 1991.
Q.SE.B756to	Town Mouse, Country Mouse. Brett, Jan. New York: Putnam's, 1994.
SE.C3112t	The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. Cauley, Lorinda Bryan. New York: G.P. Putnam, 1984.
SE.C844t	The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. Craig, Helen. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1992.
Q.SE.F535c	The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: "Christmas is Where the Heart Is." Fisher, Maxine P. New York: Random House, 1994. (Illus. by Jerry Smath.)
S.811 F9191c	The City Mouse and the Country Mouse. Fritsch, Muriel L. New York: Vantage Press, 1962.
Q.SE.J712t 1995	Town Mouse, Country Mouse. Jones, Carol. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
SE.Sch21t 1996	The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. Schecter, Ellen. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Pub., 1996. (Illus. by Holly Hannon.)
SE.C8322 1979	The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: an Aesop Fable. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Associates, 1979. (Illus. by T. R. Garcia.)
SE.W564c	The City Mouse and the Country Mouse. Wheeler, Jody. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1985.

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