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Table Fables is a hardcover collection of eight original stories created around the dinner table for the author’s young daughters. Animal characters are used as in traditional fables to entertain and inspire readers with tales of adventure, mystery, and laughter while imparting life lessons and morals. These stories are intended for children of all ages from pre-readers to established readers, and for those who are still children at heart. The key features of the book are: - Hardcover, 92 pages, 8 3/4"w X 11 1/4"h, perfect binding, glossy pages - Full-color front/back cover, B W pages - 8 stories: (1) Bukosi - King of the Ants; (2)The Porcupine That Loved Hugs; (3) The Most Beautiful Bird; (4) A New Animal Joins the Farm; (5) The Corn-Stealer; (6) The Mule and the Tick; (7) The Squirrel's Feast; (8) The Bullfrog's Songs; - Each story assigned an Adinkra symbol representing West African wisdom moral lessons - Contains universal messages for every culture - Great for K - 4 and reading alone or together - Loved by kids, even adults who are still children at heart - Copies can be signed by options to name provided - Below review by Jasmine Kumallah, Author of "Holding Demons in Small Jars" “As a child growing up in a West African household I was raised on tales as old as time. Tales of mischievous creatures and adventurous children permeate my childhood. Earl Mathis in his book Table Fables draws from a powerful tradition of oral storytelling. Mathis transmits tales, that teach with the grace and intrigue, of much older tales. The Ashanti Adinkra symbols and the powerful lessons behind them serve as guides on a rural Carolina landscape, linking diaspora to the motherland. The tales told through the lives of animals amuse and yet leave the reader with a deeper lesson. I recommend this beautiful set of stories to any young reader, and to adult readers who might want to be transported to younger days. The stories are read easily and are the sort you might find yourself going back to again and again. Mathis in Table Fables has done what is often very hard to do. He has added a set of tales to a pantheon of childhood fables worthy of being passed on to generations to come.”