Age group: 3-7 years

Dimensions: 20 x 29 cm / hardcover book / 52 pages

ISBN: 9786068996646 / Year of publication: 2022

Translation: Florin Bican

Let's look in the mirror.

• Two ducks go to the lake on the same path where they recently encountered a fox — is that a good thing?
• The lion wants to see a poor little beetle bowing before him — isn't this what the king of the animals deserves?
• Three frogs chase the end of the rainbow where there surely is a treasure, and guess what? They actually find the end.
• A bear wants to be elegant because he is a great bear that everyone should admire — the advice of a raven will prove useful.
• A little giraffe dances, a cat dreams, an ostrich is in love, a hippopotamus goes to a restaurant, a mouse wants to see the sea — Arnold Lobel's imagination knows no bounds, and these fun yet suggestive fables he tells us are, in fact, just a mirror inviting us to look at ourselves.

CALDECOTT Medal 1981

“The best book of this remarkable and award-winning author.” — Publishers Weekly

“The imagination and humor in Arnold Lobel's Fables will enchant every child.” — The New York Times

• The big and strong fall from the top.
• Sometimes it is perfectly healthy to change habits.
• Love is its own reward.
• It is difficult to pretend to be something you are not.
• The advice of friends is like the weather, sometimes good, sometimes bad.
• When they strongly desire something, some are willing to believe anything.
• All is well when it ends with a good meal.
• Happiness belongs to those who enjoy what they do.
• You can resist anything except flattery.
• The behavior of children reflects the habits of their parents.
• It is worth making a long and difficult journey for a moment of true happiness.

Arnold Lobel (1933–1987) was an American author and illustrator, creator of numerous volumes of stories and fairy tales for children just beginning to read on their own. His stories are true literary gems, crafted with finesse and subtle humor around events that are sometimes extraordinary, sometimes completely ordinary, but always connected with important values to be imparted to children: compassion, patience, courage, perseverance, the power of imagination, and, last but not least, the desire to help others and be happy together with them.