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Books like Aesop’s Fables

Across FABLES and FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Aesop’s Fables by Aesop.

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Themes: FABLES • FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Lion Fables

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Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Themes: FABLES

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Selected Fables (Penguin Classics)

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Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Adopted By the Eagles

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Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Windlord (The De Danann Tales, Book 1)

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Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Sungura and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale

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Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Out of the Everywhere: New Tales for Canada

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Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Kalila and Dimna Tales for Kings and Commoners : Selected Fables of Bidpai

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Themes: FABLES

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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Christopher Denise

Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale (Michael Di Capua Books)

Margot Zemach

Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Fables In Slang (1906)

George Ade

Themes: FABLES

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The Bird, the Frog, and the Light A Fable

Avi

Themes: FABLES

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Peter and the North Wind

Freya Littledale

Themes: FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE

If Aesop’s Fables by Aesop is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by FABLES, FOLKLORE_JUVENILE LITERATURE and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Barbara Bader, Aesop, Margot Zemach, Josephine Evetts-Secker, and others.