The Fate of Fausto by Oliver Jeffers
The inestimable Oliver Jeffers is angry. Angry about greed and bossiness, and this is his Aesop’s fable. I like morality tales; I learnt a lot from Aesop and from ‘Aesop in the shadows’, as Beatrix Potter expressed it in her dedication for The Tale of Johnny Town Mouse and as so many others through the centuries could. …
