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Aesop’s Fables has been described as a culmination of the wisdom of the ancient Greeks and the forefather of all Western folktales. It has been known for about 2，600 years and is also the oldest and most lively collection of stories. This collection is an elaborate republication of Aesop’s Fables by Dolphin Media in their special collaboration with Stone of Sisyphus Culture. Through the use of great classic content and beautiful illustrations， readers of all ages will be able to enjoy a feast for their senses. This is wisdom from 2，600 years ago gathered into 500 short stories， a great collection that one can read regardless of their age.

Aesop’s Fables is a collection of fables written around 600 BCE credited to Aesop， an enslaved person in ancient Greece. It also contains tales from India， Arabia， and Christianity， with many of the stories involving animals. Aesop is a fabulist who lived during 6th century BCE in the kingdom of Phrygia. According to historical records， he used to be an enslaved person in the house of a man named Iadmon on the island of Samos and was sold to numerous owners before gaining his freedom due to his wisdom and cleverness. After being freed， he frequented the royal court of Croesus， the king of Lydia. Aesop’s Fables is attributed to him.

Aesop’s Fables： All Two Volumes （Illustrated Edition in Both Chinese and English）

Illustrated by Liu Li， Zhang Yi， et al.

Translated by Huang Gaoxin

Dolphin Media

September 2021

158.00 （CNY）/Set

It is a masterpiece by Shen Shixi， the well-known Chinese writer of animal novels， about the ecological catastrophes.

A group of precious and rare golden-back jackals lived a very hard life under the great pressure from human beings. Hunted by the herdsmen the jackals were forced to flee to the far end of the earth. Then， without the jackals as their natural enemy， the red snow hares prevailed over the pastureland where the green grass could no longer grow， and in consequence the pasture animal husbandry encountered grave ecological crisis. As a last resort， hunter Qiangba had to set out to look for Jackals groups， in the hope of inviting them back to the grassland …

Scarface the Mother Jackal

Shen Shixi

Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

May 2010

16.00 （CNY）

Shen Shixi

Shen Shixi， the celebrated writer of children’s literature， is good at writing animal novels. He is known as “the king of Chinese animal fiction writing”. Three-time-winner of National Prize of Excellent Children’s Literature of Chinese Writers’ Association. Multiple-time-winner of China Book Award. His major works include The Glorious Dream of the Mother Wolf and The Seventh Hunting Dog， etc. Scarface the Mother Jackal won the 13th China Book Award.