Aesop's Fables by Gisela Dürr
Aesop's Fables by Gisela Dürr
Aesop's Fables by Gisela Dürr
Aesop's Fables by Gisela Dürr

Aesop's Fables by Gisela Dürr

Illustrated by Charlotte Voake

Aesop has remained popular through the ages for two simple reasons - he was a shrewd observer of human nature, and he was a gifted storyteller. He was the first to prove that a tale with a sharp moral lesson can also be thoroughly amusing. From the famous story of the Tortoise and the Hare to the lesser-known fable of the Monkey and the camel, this book offers a fine assortment of Aesop at his best. 

Aesop is a master of characterisation, scene, and setting, and the illustrations by Gisela Dürr match him stroke for stroke, with a sure hand and a warm heart. She has created engaging pencil drawings for each story, superbly reproduced using a duotone printing process. 

This is a vintage 1994 North-South Books, hardcover book “Aesop’s Fables” by Gisela Dürr.

Condition: There are some stains on the dust jacket cover and a minor tear, but the book itself is in overall good condition. 
Type:  Hardcover with dust jacket
Age:  3+

Based on her thesis project at the University of Applied Science in Mainz, Germany, Aesop's Fables is Gisela Dürr's first children's book. Although the twenty-three- year-old illustrator grew up watching television with the Sesame Street generation, she feels that picture books are a necessary addition to our everyday life.
"Opening the covers of a picture book stretches the
mind, leading the reader into a whole new world of fantasy, adventure, and imagination."

Werner Thuswaldner is a features editor in Salzburg. He is also the author of several theatrical plays, monographs, radio. and plays for television and radio.

Anthea Bell has specialized in the translation of children's literature into English for over twenty-five years, and is well- known and highly regarded on both sides of the Atlantic. Educated at Oxford University, she is fluent in several major European languages and has received particular praise for her work on the great children's classics written originally in German and Danish.

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