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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This book is compiled of several short stories and made up tales. They are diverse in topic, and some are quite interesting, mostly a page in length each. Caldecott Award winning book of fables with nice watercolor illastrations. I love fables. They're short and get the children to think about personal improvment and problem solving. The different story lessons can be applyed at different times. It would also be good for open conversaion simular real life situations. This books tells twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich. Awards and Honors: Caldecott Medal (1981) A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (1981) A collection of fables created by Arnold Lobel each with a moral. Each fable is written on one page with a single accompanying illustration on the opposite page. Very funny! This book is a fantasy book. The art is hand drawn sketches done with watercolor and colored pencils. The book has many 20 different fables that the author has written. The reading level is third or fourth grade. The curricular connection is reading because it is a book on fables. no reviews | add a review
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'Short, original fables with fresh, unexpected morals poke subtle fun at human foibles through the antics of animals. . . . The droll illustrations, with tones blended to luminescent shading, are complete and humorous themselves.' -- Association of Library Service to Children, ALA.
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