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Guess who just arrived in California? Aesop! Here among the plants, animals, and places of the Golden State, his timeless fables from ancient Greece take on a new vitality and immediacy. From blackberry-munching grizzlies to Hollywood house mice, this is a book to delight the eye, stimulate the imagination, and teach us some very important lessons.

This is a perfect backseat or restaurant companion for families with young children traveling in California's gold country and Yosemite National Park. Crisp images invite crayons and markers while child-friendly text sheds light on things kids may be wondering about along the way. What's the Mother Lode? How does gold come out of the ground? Which animals live in a giant sequoia grove? Where can one see a moonbow? Art, sightseeing, beginning s...

Queen Calafia, the main character of a sixteenth-century Spanish romance about an island overflowing with gold and populated by Amazon-like women, is incensed when she hears that we have adopted her name for our state. Being the good and reasonable queen that she is, she's willing to hear from twenty-six animals about why California is worthy of her name. But if she decides it isn't, she'll launch an army of goddesses riding griffins to wreak ...