2010 Animal Stories: The Complete 52 Episode Series. Episodes written and directed by Tony Collingwood and produced by Chris O'Hare. Collingwood O'Hare Productions Ltd. Made in the USA. $10 from an unknown source.
Winner of "The Best Pre-School Animation 2001 - BAFTA." The first two episodes both deal well with sensitive matter: being a fat pig and have – as frogs do – 3004 children at once! Rhyming couplets.
1961 Animal Stories of Aesop. Narrated by Sterling Holloway. Disneyland Record DQ 1221. Walt Disney Productions. $2, Summer, '89. Extra copy for $2 from Coin Corner and Hobbies, Oregon City, OR, through Ebay, March, '99. Third copy from an unknown source.
One reader with occasional interruptions from kids and a bit of music. Versions are on the sentimental side. AL (six minutes), AD (four minutes), OF (six minutes), "The Lion and the Goat" (three minutes), and FG (four minutes). The countercultural ant likes to sing, and so gets thirsty. The best fable features the (father) frog and the ox. "The Lion and the Goat" has a scratch and repeats on the original '89 copy. The fox passes up many grapes to get the best; the story runs to too much length.
