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1987 Foxy Fables. 75 minutes. Claymation. ©Frame by Frame, Denmark, 1986. ©1987 Hi-Tops Video, a Division of Heron Communications, Santa Monica, CA. HT 0055. Produced by Mike Filderbaum. Directed and Animated by Rony Oren. Co-ordinated by…

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1987 Aesop's Fables III: The Hen with the Golden Eggs and Other Tales. Fully animated. Rewritten for today by Victor J. Tognola. Illustrated by Adelky. No. 1564. ©1987 Children's Video Library, Inc. $2.25 from Rachael Houdroge, Portland, OR, through…

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1990/91 The Eagle and the Owl. Aesop's Fable. Introduced by Bill Cosby as Aesop. Plus a Sing-A-Long Cartoon. About 30 minutes. #40002. Freehold, NJ: ©1990 Trans Atlantic Video. Anaheim: ©1991 Diamond Entertainment Corporation. Gift of John Carlson,…

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1962?/90? Vincent Van Moose. Volume 3 of "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle." Burbank: Buena Vista Home Video. $9.95 at Washington Video, Georgetown, Dec., '91.

The "Aesop & Son" portion here is the story of the dog and his shadow (5:20), a…

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2015 Le petit Théâtre de La Fontaine: 8 Fables a Jouer Masqués. Agnes de Lestrade and Gloria Pizzilli. Tirage No. 1. Paperbound. Paris: Seuil Jeunesse: Éditions du Seuil. $23.91 from Stars and Stripes Bookstore through Amazon.com, May,…

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1994 Six paper masks from G.P. Putnam's Sons as a promotion in connection with Jan Brett's Town Mouse/Country Mouse

The back of each mask identifies its character's name and offers apt quotations and commentary, which I show below. See also, on…

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2020 Refrigerator magnet "When all is said and done, more is said than done. –Aesop". $5 from StuckOnUArt through Etsy, July, '20.

I find it intriguing to see what statements are attributed to Aesop. I am sure that this sentiment fits with more…

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2018 FS Refrigerator magnet. 4½" square. With Walter Crane's illustration of the fable. $5.95 from Labelstone through Etsy, August, '18.

The detail in this reproduction is spectacular. Crane's two-panel approach appeals to me as the way to…

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2001? "The Tortoise and the Hair" magnet. Metal. 2" square. $5.75 from Azilliondollars.com through Etsy, Jan., '23.

This pun has been used before, for example in "Sin City Fables" from 1981. The cartoon character here is charming! I am…

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CP by posterbobs. 4.3" x 5.5". $9.03
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