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`Aesop's Fables,' retold and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; SeaStar.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20001115
Author:Schaffer, Michael D.

It never hurts to repeat the truth, as a newspaper editor of my acquaintance once observed.

It especially doesn't hurt _ to put a finer point on it than the editor was interested in doing _ to repeat a collection of truths that have been canonized over the ages as folk wisdom.

That's what author/illustrator Jerry Pinkney, winner of four Caldecott Honors for illustrating children's books, has done with his new version of "Aesop's Fables."

Pinkney has selected 60 of the 200 or so stories attributed to Aesop and rewritten and illustrated them with bold, bright ...

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