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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2009
Gr 2-5 Three dozen tales, compactly retold and boldly pictured, are spread across the wide pages of this large, slim collection. Cech uses restraint in embellishing or expanding the small tales, presenting them in traditional brief form with the moral stated at the end. The language is contemporary with just a few colloquialisms that will seem amusing or dissonant according to the readers taste. Rooster was strutting his stuff in the b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
This is a sophisticated rendering of thirty-six fables, many well known ("The Fox & the Grapes," "The Tortoise & the Hare"), a few more obsc...Log In or Sign Up to Read More




