Aesop's Fables

By:

Caroline Lawrence

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics

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Aesop's Fables belong to every one of us. They were once simply the words of a slave; a man who lived 600 years before Christ. They were written down by a Greek, and then a Roman, and they spread, like the armies of Rome, across the known world. They were told around heathen campfires, and noble hearths; whispered in sacred monasteries and churches; lectured in Victorian school rooms and acted out by children at play. Each little fable is bound up with 2000 years of wisdom and truth. From these we know that a mouse is too weak to withstand the strength of a lion, yet too mighty to be bound by ropes. We learn that the violence of the North Wind is no match for the gentle beaming of the unrelenting Sun. We know in our hearts that the sheep must push through life, and try to overcome its many dangers, that the wolf will trick and deceive to survive, and that we cannot pretend to understand the logic of the gods if we do not hold ourselves to the same standard. Therefore, Aesop's Fables belong to all of us, as Stone Age cave paintings belong, not to the artist, but to human civilisation. It is a book about what it is to be human, cherished by each generation and passed on to the next.

Author Biography:

Million-selling author Caroline Lawrence writes with the double aim of entertaining children and teaching them. Caroline is best known for her Roman Mysteries series which was televised by the BBC in 2007 and 2008. Filmed in Tunisia, Bulgaria and Malta, it was the most expensive BBC children's TV series to date. In 2009, Caroline won the Classical Association Prize for 'a significant contribution to the public understanding of Classics', an honour shared by Classicists such as Tom Holland and Mary Beard. She has since written series set in the Wild West and Roman Britain - as well as retellings of some of the events of the Aeneid.Robert Ingpen was born in 1936 in Geelong, Australia, and studied illustration art and book design at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 1986 he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his contribution to children's literature and he has been honoured with Membership of the Order of Australia.

Release date Australia

October 13th, 2022

Author

Caroline Lawrence

Audience

Children / Juvenile

Contributor

Illustrated by Robert Ingpen

Illustrations

clr illus

Interest Age

From 7 years

Pages

192

Series

Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics

ISBN-13

9781913519902

Product ID

35628915

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