The Dog and His Shadow

From Aesop's Fables

Retold by Jerry Pinkney
Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Grade:

K-3

ISBN-13:

978-1587170003

Publisher:

Chronicle Books (2000)

Called "The Dog and the Bone" in this collection, this fable tells of a dog carrying a bone who sees his own reflection in the water. Thinking that his reflection is another dog with a bigger bone, he attempts to scare it off with a bark. Alas, his greed for something bigger causes him to be left with nothing.