1998 Aesop's Fables 1999 Calendar. Arthur Rackham, Milo Winter, Charles Folkard, and Charles Henry Bennet (sic: Bennett). Printed in Hong Kong. NY: Dorset Press. Gift of Margaret Carlson Lytton, Nov., '98. Extra copies a gift of Julie Stringer, Feb., '99 and for $5.98 from Barnes and Noble, Milwaukee, Dec., '98.
Each month presents a full-page picture. The page hanging below it includes within the grid of the month's days a title, moral, attribution of the picture, and text of the fable. The selections are, in order: "Venus and the Cat" (Rackham), "Jupiter, the Lion, and the Elephant" (Rackham), "The Cat, the Rooster, and the Young Mouse" (Winter), "The Fox and the Monkey" (Folkard), "TH" (Folkard), OF--but without any mention of an ox!--(Folkard), GA (Bennet[sic: Bennett]), LM (Winter), "The Owl and the Grasshopper" (Folkard), "The Satyr and the Man" (Folkard), "The Trees and the Axe" (Rackham), and TMCM (Folkard). All twelve illustrations are arranged on the back cover.
2005 Aesop's Fables 1-2. Xi'an, China: Open Your Ears: Xi'an Jiaotong University Press.
This is one of two audio-cassettes accompanying a book of the same name. Apparently each of the four sides contains about ten fables. of the forty-one fables in the book. The book enhances each English text with vocabulary, translations, and "listening points." The cassettes present, after some opening Chinese, a reading of each of the fables with its listening points. These idiomatic phrases may be the strongest point of these tapes and of this combined publication. The tapes feature good native American speakers. I see some references to 2008 on the verso of the title-page, but I will trust the eBay seller's statement that the book was published in 2005 and that this is a copy of its first edition. All of the information on the cassettes except their numbers 1a, 1b, 2a, and 2b is in Chinese. There is a "3" on each side of each cassette; perhaps Aesop's Fables is the third book in the series "Open Your Ears."
2005 Aesop's Fables 3-4. Xi'an, China: Open Your Ears: Xi'an Jiaotong University Press. $3 from peiyantu, Hangzhou, China, through eBay, Sept., '11.
This is one of two audio-cassettes accompanying a book of the same name. Apparently each of the four sides contains about ten fables. of the forty-one fables in the book. The book enhances each English text with vocabulary, translations, and "listening points." The cassettes present, after some opening Chinese, a reading of each of the fables with its listening points. These idiomatic phrases may be the strongest point of these tapes and of this combined publication. The tapes feature good native American speakers. I see some references to 2008 on the verso of the title-page, but I will trust the eBay seller's statement that the book was published in 2005 and that this is a copy of its first edition. All of the information on the cassettes except their numbers 1a, 1b, 2a, and 2b is in Chinese. There is a "3" on each side of each cassette; perhaps Aesop's Fables is the third book in the series "Open Your Ears."
2003? Aesop's Fables + free stuff. DVD? Teaching aids including tests concerning 15 fables and the correct answers. Also a word document offering 91 pages of digitized fables from a standard source. Unknown source.
Here is a surprising assortment of teaching helps from letter forms antonyms to all sorts of word games and tests. I believe I have seen, somewhere in our collection, the same digitized 91 Word document pages of standard fables, including a short introduction quoting four lines of Latin. The pdf files on fables are doublets of each other: one a fill-in-the-blank quiz on one of the fifteen fables, and the other the appropriate answers. We can say to Aesop with Dr. Seuss "My, the places you will go!"
