Best Selling Books by Neil Philip

Fables are short tales with a moral, often featuring animal characters. Aesop''s fables from Ancient Greece are the best-known, and Jean de la Fontaine elegantly reworked their themes to the taste of 17th century France. Oral storytellers have kept the fable alive all over the world.Aesops'' fables include: Sour Grapes, The Lion''s Share, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, King Log, The Dog in the Manger and The Wind and the Sun.The fables of La Fontaine include: The Cicada and the Ant, The Frog Who Wanted to be as Big as the Ox, The Fox and the Stork, The Lion and the Goat and The Rat and the Elephant.This enchanting collection of best-loved fables is illustrated with work by many of the great names of the golden age of illustration, including Walter Crane, Charles H. Bennett, Charles Robinson, Richard Heighway, Frederick Burr Opper, J M Conde and others.

Vivid traditional tales, simply retold and with context notes, gorgeously illustrated in hand-stitched folk-art style.

Rajahs, brahmins and tigers abound in evocative stories, retold with context notes and vibrant illustrations.

Presents a full-color illustrated history of ancient mythology from Greece, Rome, Egypt, and other parts of the world and includes creation and flood stories, worship of the sun and stars, gods and goddesses, and more.

Collects seven legends and parables of Yiddish and Slavic folktale tradition created in the early nineteenth century by a Ukrainian Hasidic rabbi.

Describes the origins, physical characteristics, dwelling places, activities, and special powers of different types of fairy folk from around the world. Illustrative traditional stories from various cultures are interspersed throughout the text.

An anthology of short poems inspired by food, from soup to dessert, and written by such poets as Lewis Carroll, Douglas Florian, A.A. Milne, and Edward Lear.

A festive collection of classic seasonal folktales and fairy stories, retold by a renowned folklorist, and beautifully illlustrated with intricate paintings by Isabelle Brent.

Picture book story about a visit to the zoo.