Aesop's Fables
$71.56
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
18 October 2022
Summary
Timeless Tales: Aesop’s Fables
Aesop’s Fables belong to every one of us. They were once simply the words of a slave; a man who lived 600 years before Christ. They were written down by a Greek, and then a Roman, and they spread, like the armies of Rome, across the known world. They were told around heathen campfires, and noble hearths; whispered in sacred monasteries and churches; lectured in Victorian school rooms and acted out by children at play.
Each little fable is bound…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781913519902 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1913519902 |
| Series: | Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics |
| Author: | Caroline Lawrence, Robert Ingpen |
| Publisher: | Hachette Children's Group |
| Imprint: | Welbeck Children's Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 18 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 940g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 200mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Caroline Lawrence
Caroline Lawrence (Author)
Caroline Lawrence is American. She lives with her husband by the river in London and is active as a speaker in schools and at book festivals. She took part in the British Museum’s POMPEII LIVE event, giving talks that were streamed to schools all over the UK, and she is the winner of the 2009 CLASSICS ASSOCIATION PRIZE for ‘a significant contribution to the public understanding of Classics’. In addition to the 17 novels in the ROMAN MYSTERIES sequence, Caroline Lawrence has written five spin-off titles, all of which have contributed to total UK sales in excess of 1 million copies.
Robert Ingpen (Illustrator)
Robert Ingpen was born in 1936 in Geelong, Australia, and still lives and works nearby in Barwon Heads. In 1986 he was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his contribution to children’s literature and he has been honoured with Membership of the Order of Australia.
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