Aesop's fable "The Frogs Who Asked for a King" is about human folly and the dangers of discontent. This version comes from the beautifully illustrated 1915 edition Aesop's Fables for Children, ...

Cambridge scientists have used an age-old fable to help illustrate how we think differently to other animals. Lucy Cheke, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge's Department of Experimental ...

According to “The Life of Aesop,” a text compiled in ancient Greece from a variety of legends, the man whose name is synonymous with the fable was born a slave in Phrygia (in modern-day Turkey) in the ...

I have watched the brouhaha over library books with a jaundiced eye because I detest censorship in just about any form. Oh, I am very much in favor about age-appropriate aisles in a school library but ...

In Aesop's fable 'The crow and the pitcher' a thirsty crow uses stones to raise the level of water in a pitcher to quench its thirst. A new study published online today (06 August) in the journal ...

Beverley Naidoo, illus. by Piet Grobler. Frances Lincoln (PGW, dist.), $18.95 (52p) ISBN 978-1-84780-007-7 In her introduction, Naidoo (who collaborated with Grobler on The Great Tug of War) points ...

The original "Aesop's Fables" film series, also known as "Aesop's Film Fables," was produced by the Van Beuren Corporation in the late 1920s. It included animated shorts that adapted the classic ...

"The Hare and the Tortoise" Source: Arthur Rackham/Wikimedia Commons, pubic domain. I recently read Dr. Jo Wimpenny's book Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables and simply couldn't put it ...

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