Fables: Aesop; Translated by Roger L'Estrange; Illustrated by Stephen Gooden (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series)

Aesop is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C. a slave on the Greek island of Samos. The eternally entertaining tales attributed to himin which the fates of sly foxes wicked wolves industrious ants and others suggest what our own behaviors should (or should not) behave been universal "best-sellers" since before LEstranges definitive 1692 English translation. Goodens superb engravings were first published in 1936 in a limited edition.