Baby's Own Aesop

Walter Crane (1845–1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children’s book creator of his generation. His work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts.


Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic mediums.


This edition of Baby’s Own Aesop includes high-quality scans of the original edition. The experience is designed to be viewed on iPad.