Award-winning illustrator Christopher Wormell brings his vivid artwork to the classic Aesop's Fables, in a visual feast to delight both children and adults Aesop's Fables are a cornerstone of children's literature. In this beautiful new book, Christopher Wormell takes a unique point of view of these beloved tales and with the compelling animal images which have become his trademark. Gorgeous linoleum block prints illustrate a key moment in the story, highlighting the moral printed in Wormell's hand-cut typeface on the opposite page. This simple approach encourages parent-child interaction through story-telling, while an appendix provides each tale in more detail, along with a thumbnail of the illustration. Christopher Wormell's compelling and colourful artwork has won him admirers amongst children and adults alike. His first book for children, An Alphabet of Animals, started as a series of simple and colourful lino-cut illustrations for his son, and eventually grew into a book that took the prestigious Graphics Prize at the Bologna International Children's Book Fair in 1991.