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'With the wit we've grown to expect, Ranjit Bolt has transformed these familiar tales into such idiomatically entertaining English that it is a pleasure rather than a chore to read them aloud to young children' - Jonathan Miller. La Fontaine's most famous fables have now been delightfully retold in elegant rhyming couplets by award-winning translator, Ranjit Bolt, accompanied by Giselle Potter's charming illustrations. Children can read about the ant and the grasshopper, the hare and the tortoise, the town mouse and the country mouse, and many other familiar characters. Full of wit and imagination, these moral tales are as fresh and funny today as ever.

'A modern version of La Fontaine's wised-up fables. The tortoise moving in top gear/doing at least a mile a year and the man who thinks he looks so very fine/Though he saw mirrors all the time/That seemed to tell him otherwise, convey their clever lessons all over again. An excellent introduction reminds us that many of the fables were based on tales that originally appeared in Sanskrit as early as the fourth century (they were reputedly written for three badly behaved young princes).' The New York Times Book Review --The New York Times Book Review. If it's a real classic you're after, The Hare and the Tortoise, is the most erudite edition in this year's line-up, Ranjit Bolt has translated the 17th- century fables pf La Fontaine into an English that's both entertaining and elegant.' Nicola Smyth, The Independent on Sunday --The Independent on Sunday. Famous fables from yesteryear have been rewritten and transformed into witty and lyrical verse that make them a pleasure to read aloud to young children and indeed for older children to read alone. Imaginations will run riot as the book unfolds and the whimsical charm of the illustrations will capture hearts everywhere.' Lovereading4Kids --Lovereading4Kids

If it's a real classic you're after, The Hare and the Tortoise, is the most erudite edition in this year's line-up, Ranjit Bolt has translated the 17th- century fables pf La Fontaine into an English that's both entertaining and elegant.' Nicola Smyth, The Independent on Sunday --The Independent on Sunday

Famous fables from yesteryear have been rewritten and transformed into witty and lyrical verse that make them a pleasure to read aloud to young children and indeed for older children to read alone. Imaginations will run riot as the book unfolds and the whimsical charm of the illustrations will capture hearts everywhere.' Lovereading4Kids --Lovereading4Kids