Animals Who Have Won Our Hearts [signed]

From the preface of this lovely book: "Long ago a slave named Aesop saw human qualities in animals and captured these traits in his fables of morals for people. Aesop's animals are lovable and amusing. They are also selfish, greedy, and evil, but they tell us more about ourselves than about the animals. The stories in this book are not fables. They are the true stories of individuals who through chance, or the times they lived in - but primarily through their beautiful animalness - become beloved in their own right." Filled with beautiful illustrations, both color and black and white, some full-page, this is a book to treasure.