Thank you Netgalley for my review copy.

This book, although offering up international fable stories, did not really do it for me. It was a little boring looking and the tales were a bit bland. I can imagine that it would be a good one to read to children but I have seen better versions.

Cute, short book of different tales, some of which I had never heard before, others that were old chestnuts. The morals were sometimes annoying, because they were written a bit too tongue in cheek, but most of them weren't bad. Not a bad compilation of moralistic tales. The most interesting ones were the ones from exotic to me locales, such as India and Turkey. Three solid stars.

My thanks to NetGalley and Schiffer Publishing Ltd. for an eARC copy of this book to read and review.

A decent collection of quick little moral tales, only the one over two sides in length, gathered from all corners and presented well. I don't think they have been done with enough thought to all audiences, however – this looks more like an old-fashioned book to me, meaning the tales are for the collector. The young will not be quite so ready to return to this, with the copperplate font of the morals, and the uniform page style and low illustration count. It read fine to me, but it needed to be a lot more lively for the young audience it potentially had.