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pokerfan

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Mon Aug 6, 2012, 02:23 PM Aug 2012

Free Aesop for Children app brings classic fables to smartphones, tablets, Android

Cool. I have the Gutenberg version of course but this looks to be a little bit more elegant...

The Aesop for Children interactive book is designed to be enjoyed by readers of any age. The book contains over 140 classic fables, accompanied by beautiful illustrations and interactive animations.

“Aesop's Fables”—also called “the Aesopica”—are a collection of stories designed to teach moral lessons credited to Aesop, a Greek slave and story-teller thought to have lived between 620 and 560 BCE.

Aesop's fables are some of the most well known in the world and have been translated in multiple languages and become popular in dozens of cultures through the course of five centuries. They have been told and retold in a variety of media, from oral tradition to written storybooks to stage, film and animated cartoon versions—even in architecture.

The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. Younger scholars will be able to trace the origin of aphorisms such as “sour grapes” and “a bird in the hand.”

This interactive ebook is presented by the Library of Congress, adapted from the book “The Aesop for Children: with Pictures by Milo Winter,” published by Rand, McNally & Co in 1919. This work is considered to be in the public domain in the United States.



http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aesop-for-children/id538815234



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Free Aesop for Children app brings classic fables to smartphones, tablets, Android (Original Post) pokerfan Aug 2012 OP
Read.gov is where you can find the e-book and more Viva_La_Revolution Aug 2012 #1
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