Very Short Fables to Read Together [Paperback]

Mary Ann Hoberman and Michael Emberley have added Aesop's fables to their bestselling and award-winning series! Rediscover familiar tales and find new favorites in this irresistible fifth YOU READ TO ME collaboration. These stories of classic characters-from wise ants and kind mice to sly foxes and hungry wolves-are fables as you've never seen them before!

With clear, color-coded typography and clever illustrations, this book in two voices uses traditional reading teaching techniques-alliteration, rhyme, and repetition-to invite young children to read along with peers or with an adult.Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman is the author of the classicA House is a House for Me, which won a National Book Award, as well as the bestselling Sing-Along Stories series.

Michael Emberley is theNew York Timesbest-selling illustrator ofIt's Perfectly Normalby Robie Harris and has created several books of his own, includingRuby and Dinosaurs! A Drawing Book. Children's poet laureate Hoberman is really the master of unforced rhyme ... and Emberley's pencil-and-watercolor illustrations are as consistently spry as the poems. The Horn Book Emberley's pencil and watercolor spot illustrations bring fresh energy to the classic tales as well as a softening tone: the Hare and the Tortoise race on bicycles (the Hare wears spandex), and the golden-egg laying goose has a button-up chest, ensuring that the farmer doesn't have to use his knife. The jaunty rhymes and theatrical element of adopting a persona should spark enthusiasm from reluctant readers. Publishers Weekly Repeats the earlier books' winning formula...All are retold simply and engagingly and are illustrated with lively spot illustrations. Booklist The latest installment from [the] wildly successful series...the text is delivered in punchy, color-coded typography that makes abundant use of repls"