This nearly wordless companion to the Caldecott Medal-winning The Lion & the Mouse is Jerry Pinkney's most stunning masterpiece yet. Even the slowest tortoise can defeat the quickest hare, and even the proudest hare can learn a timeless lesson from the most humble tortoise: Slow and steady wins the race! Here is a superbly rendered journey from starting line to finish that embodies the bravery, perseverance, and humility we can all find inside ourselves.  Don't miss these other classic retellings by Jerry Pinkney: The Little MermaidThe Lion & the Mouse The Grasshopper & the Ants The Three Billy Goats Gruff Little Red Riding HoodTwinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

    When you share a story with children, do they fidget or do they listen intently? Can you imagine trying to pass on a value, moral or lesson-learned when you do not have everyone's rapt attention? Thrice Told Tales is a re-telling of old fables and folk tales from around the world. Karl F. Hollenbach delivers this work with added narrative to capture the attention, to engage the imagination, and to illustrate subtle nuances of the lesson in each story. Thrice Told Tales includes favorite fables such as "The Piper," "The Juggler," and "The Stone Prince"; ancient stories whose message of love and fair play speaks to the child in all people of good will. It is a book, which will be cherished and beloved by children, and prized by adults as a memorable reminder of days past. > Large Print Edition

    

    A ringed seal discovers that the truth can be a powerful friend; an Arctic Ground Squirrel learn to be careful what she wishes for; and the porcupine knows that slow and steady wins the race. With beautiful illustrations by Alaskan painter Jim Fowler, the twelve fables here are uniquely set in the landscape of the Alaskan wilderness.

    Bitsie gets caught while getting too curious. When Leo discovers her, Bitsie nearly becomes the lion’s dinner. She offers to help Leo someday if he will let her live, an idea he finds so funny that he sets her free. The tables are turned when Leo gets caught in a hunter’s trap. Bitsie keeps her word and comes to the rescue. Although Leo can’t believe tiny Bitsie can help him, she tries her best. Just as the hunters are about to capture Leo, Bitsie makes one last bite, and Leo bursts forth from his trap. This retelling of Aesop’s classic fable illustrates that great things often come in small packages.

    Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... 31 JKrtttw-Book tDithcmt pictures. It Is wonderful! When my heart feel* tne mo it warmly, and my emotions are the noblest, it is as if my hands and my tonaue were tied; I cannot describe, I cannot express my own inward state; an DEGREES yet I am a painter; my eye tells me so; and every one who has seen my sketches and my tablets acknowledges it. I am a poor youth; I live over theie in one of the narrowest streets, but I have no want of light, because I live up aloft, with a view over all the house-tops. The first day 1 came into the city it seemed to me so confined and lonesome; instead of the woods and the M green breezy heights, I had only the grey chimneys as far as I could see. I did not possess one friend here; not a single face which I Knew saluted me. One evening, very much depressed in mind, 1 stood at my window; I opened it and look ed out. Nay, how glad it made me; I saw a face which I knew; a round, friendly face, that of my dearest friend in heaven; it was the Moon--the dear old Moon, the very same, precisely the same, as when she peeped at me between the willow trees on the marshes. I kissed my hand to her; she shone right down into my chamber, and promised me, that every night when she was out she would take a peep at me. And she has honestly kept her word--pity only that she can remain for so short a time! Every night she comes she tells me one thing or another which she has seen either that night or the night before. "Make a sketch '- said she, on her first visit, "of what I tell thee, and thus thou shalt make a really beautiful picture-book!" This I have clone; and in this way I might give a new Thousand and One Nights in pictures: but that would be too much; those which I have given have not been selected, but are just...