Three New Aesops Help Children Wise Up

Animals have always been good to think with,and these three new picture books rework Aesop's fables in interesting ways.  Below the link to my review of the books in the NYTBR.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/books/…

In 1484, William Caxton, the man credited with introducing the printing press to England, brought Aesop to English speakers — and we've been reading him ever since. Aesop has been a part of the nursery for so long it is hard to imagine a jailed Socrates, awaiting execution, deciding that nothing is more important than turning the Greek slave's fables into poetry. Like the stories Plato called old wives' tales, these fables have become part of the cultural bloodstream, passing wisdom from one generation to the next.