Aesop's Fables

(Hardback)

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This reissue of Lisbeth Zwerger's gorgeously illustrated edition features 12 Aesop favorites, from The Fox and the Grapes to The Milkmaid & Her Pail.

Author Bio

Lisbeth Zwerger has been accorded nearly every prize that can be given, including the highest international award for lifetime achievement, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. Since 1981 she has devoted her extraordinary talents to childrens literature, to stories as charming and picturesque as her native Vienna. Always surprising, always engaging, her artwork combines technical mastery with an insight and gentleness so rare and captivating that she has been correctly called one of the finest illustrators of the twentieth century.