The Aesop for ChildrenWith pictures by Milo Winter

The Aesop for Children gathers more than 140 of Aesop's short fables, retold for young readers and paired with Milo Winter's lively drawings. Each story is only a page or two long. A fox, a crow, a lion or a mouse faces a small problem, and at the end a single sentence states the lesson, such as "Slow and steady wins the race." Aesop was a storyteller of ancient Greece, and his tales have been told for over two thousand years.

In Vietnamese this is an easy book to start with. The sentences are short and plain, and the stories use everyday words about animals, food, weather and family. Each tale is complete on its own, so you can read one in a few minutes and stop. The moral at the end repeats the main idea, which helps new readers check that they understood. Pictures sit beside the text to help with new words.