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Here’s another must-have for your book collection. Arnold Lobel’s Fables.
Gorgeous illustrations (it’s a Caldecott winner). Classic tales. Frankly, it’s hard not to love everything made by the creator of Frog and Toad.
Doesn’t every child need a book filled with fables? What would you say is most important in helping a child become culturally literate —Fables? Myths? Mother Goose? The Bible?
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love love love!
I love this book and haven’t seen it for a long time. Thanks for the reminder.
I’ve loved that book since elementary school when I made a puppet to look just like the bear on the cover. Good reminder that I need to pull that one out to read again.
Oh my goodness, Gabby, I have not seen this book cover since I was a child. The memories come flooding back. I need to share with my own sons. -Carrie
We actually started reading fables at bedtime about two weeks ago. My 4 year old loves it. He actually looks forward to bedtime (gasp) because he enjoys the fables so much!
Great question! I agree with you, they all have a role to play. I’d like to hear what others think about which is *the most* significant. In my own childhood, I think the Value Tales series might have been more significant than the bible or fables. Was anyone else influenced by those big white books?
i love this book. brings back many memories with my mom reading it to us!
We grew up reading from this book in our home and always loved it. Thanks for the reminder to get a copy for my son so he can enjoy “Fables” the way we did.
I had this book when I was little and I loved it. Great choice!
Wow talk about a trip down memory lane! My childhood was spent reading from this book. I read my son these stories all of the time!
arnold lobel is genius. we havne’t acquired fables yet, but all of us enjoy the frog and toad books, definite favorites at our house. perhaps santa will bring the fables. or Mr. Owl.
This is one of my favorite books!! Fables were a part of the High School curriculum that I taught. Everyone at every age can still learn from Aesop and Arnold Lobel!
I was just looking at this book (online) earlier this week and was about to hit add-to-cart, but didn’t. Looks like I need to add this to our collection.
ha ha, I just read one of the fables to my neice the other day! Love this book.
Your Book of the Week feature is one of my favorites. We have a large children’s book collection and I think I will have to squirrel it away once the children are grown, because I am unable to say goodbye to those wonderful books. The problem is, I am constantly finding more books that are begging to be added to our collection. Illustrators should be less amazing!
was my fav book as a kid!!! thanks for reminding me about it! my son is due in a few weeks so i think ill remind my dad and have him get it for his grandson :)
Oh I had this exact same book when I was little – and loved it!
Hopefully it’s somewhere at my parents ready to be enjoyed by little ones all over again! Thanks so much for sharing and reviving my memories.
I will look for this one! About your question: I think everything you mentioned, plus Tales from Shakespeare, A Child’s Garden of Verses, and the original Pooh books and poetry were the cultural- literacy-shaping highlights of my childhood. And the many Dickens novels my dad read aloud in the evenings!
I just picked this one up last Saturday at a yard sale for ten cents! We’re collecting Caldecott and Newbery winners and finalists, and this was one I had my eye out for. Was considering taking it apart to frame some of the pictures for my boy’s room, but…I have issues with “destroying” books, ten cents or not!