Aesop's Fables, Retold by Elli Woollard by Elli Woollard

Aesop's Fables, Retold by Elli Woollard by Elli Woollard

A beautiful gift edition of Aesop’s Fables featuring eight classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stunning illustrations. Bringing together the incredible talents of award-winning illustrator and Booktrust Time to Read favourite, Marta Altés and author and poet, Elli Woollard, this unique collection of Aesop’s Fables is a fresh and funny take on an enduring classic. Richly illustrated throughout by Marta Altés, author of Little Monkey, this is perfect for new and younger readers and will delight children and adults alike. Meet the town mouse and his country cousin, discover what happens to the boy who cried wolf one too many times and find out just how the tortoise beat the boastful hare. A perfect companion title to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, retold by Elli Woollard, created by the same winning team. Stories include: Two Travellers and the Bear The Hare and the Tortoise The Boy who cried Wolf The Donkey in the Lion's Skin The Dog and his Reflection The Baboon and the Fox The Peacock and the Crane The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

There’s a great balance between the morals of these traditional tales and a sense of fun and humour, bound up in a beautiful edition to treasure for years to come-- Emma Dunn and Sandra Mallon * The Scotsman *
Who doesn't love an Aesop's fable? Clever animals and silly humans; animals behaving like humans portraying a code which enables the weak and powerless t o speak out against the strong and powerful without fear of punishment. Ancient tales that teach a moral and have stood the test of time. Couple a special selection of these celebrated fables with the brilliant rhyming talent of the author as she retells the stories in a lively, contemporary way, then add the stunningly beautiful illustrations by an award-winning artist and the result is a book t o treasure by young and old alike -- Sue Breslin * The School Librarian *

Elli Woollard is an exciting talent on the picture books scene, who started writing stories after an embarrassing incident in which her youngest son broke Michael Rosen's glasses. In addition to picture books, she also writes children's poems and stories. Her snappy rhymes, catchy rhythms and witty stories are sure to make her a huge success. Elli has written The Giant of Jum, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and The Dragon and the Nibblesome Knight for Macmillan, as well as the young fiction series Swashbuckle Lil. Elli lives in London with her four children, her husband and two guinea pigs.

Marta Altés is the award-winning creator of My Grandpa, I am an Artist!, My New Home and The King Cat. She loves to tell stories and her love of illustration saw her study for a degree in Graphic Design in Barcelona. Marta moved to the UK to study for an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art (the best decision she ever made!) and graduated in 2011. Since then she has won the Read It Again! Award and the Nottingham Children's Book Award and her first book No! was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Picture Book Prize. Furthermore, Marta's title Little Monkey was chosen as the BookTrust Time to Read campaign title for 2018 and has twice been nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Marta lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9781509886661
ISBN 10	1509886664
Title	Aesop's Fables, Retold by Elli Woollard
Author	Elli Woollard
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2019-10-03
Number of pages	96
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