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Winner of the 2014 Aesop Prize for Childrens and Young Adult Literature Winner of the 2013 Gelett Burgess Childrens Book Award for Fables, Folklore Fairytales 2014 Creative Child Magazine Book of the Year Award Winner For thousands of years, Chinese storytellers have delighted listeners with stories about the value of virtues like honesty, respect, courage and self-reliance. Chinese Fables collects nineteen of these wonderful tales, some of them dating back to the third century BCE, and retells them in contemporary English for a modern audience. Each of these stories offers a nugget of ancient folk wisdom and shares aspects of Chinese culture and lore. All of the tales express the foibles and wisdom of human experience with great humor and affection.