In the final session of our Aesop’s Fables unit the children move to the story of the Lion and the Mouse. They show how the Lion catches the Mouse and then sets him free, only to be caught ...

Aesop's fables are well known in the world of children's literature, but finding fascinating facts about Aesop is a much more ...

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 ...

40 of Aesop's best-known fables are brought to life in adaptations for children aged 5 to 9. Each story is five minutes long and read by an all-star cast including Brenda Blethyn, the late Richard ...

A cattle dealer once drove some bulls to the slaughterhouse. And the butcher came at night with his sharp knife. “Let us close ranks and jack up this executioner on our horns,” suggested one ...

The ambiguities of "Aesop" are in part generated structurally through the film technique of "rapid montage." 3 Sudden time-shifts and changes of scene create a highly compressed narrative that weaves ...

As a child, one of my favorite things to read was fables. Whether it was the Aesop’s, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Lion and the Mouse, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, or one of his many others, I read ...