Aesop's Fables

Overview

Aesop's Fables are credited to Aesop, a storyteller from Ancient Greece. They have become a popular choice for moral education of children today. Many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived), The Tortoise and the Hare, The North Wind and the Sun and The Boy Who Cried Wolf, are well-known throughout the world.

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Author Information

Bio of Aesop

Though many modern scholars dispute his existence, Aesop's life was chronicled by first century Greek historians who wrote that Aesop, or Aethiop, was born into Greek slavery in 620 B.C. Freed because of his wit and wisdom, Aesop supposedly traveled throughout Greece and was employed at various times by the governments of Athens and Corinth. Some of Aesop's most recognized fables are The Tortoise and the Hare, The Fox and the Grapes, and The Ant and the Grasshopper. His simple but effective morals are widely used and illustrated for children.

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Customer Reviews

• Easy to Recommend

  Posted April 24, 2008 by lujohon, Manoa, Hawaii

  Many of us have probably experiences Aesop's Fables in one form or another. My initial experience of them was little reading a children's version of it featuring illustrations. As an adult, I decided to read through the full version for fun. It is so much better when you can understand these fables by attributing to real life situations (something you couldn't do as a child).
  
  This is one of those books that is great for impress your friends; reciting quotes that are relevant to a specific situation. A good quote to memorize is "The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny." from The Wolf and the Lamb fable. That one will always come in handy.
  
  5/5

• Fun

  Posted April 10, 2009 by Dawn, St. Louis

  We all grew up on Aesop's (and others') fables and learned from them whether we understood it at the time or not. No matter our age, we still find we can learn a lesson from a lion who is helped by a boy - remembers the boy later when they meet again in a pit and both are set free. We enjoy these fables and in turn use them to help strengthen our children's moral character and find we strengthen our own in turn. This book is short of 400 pages (I don't remember the exact number) which includes an afterward (that apparantly is supposed to be a preface.) It's a fast read - or take your time and contemplate each fable; each takes a page (more or less).

Additional Info

Imprint

CONNECT eBooks Classics

Filesize

1015.18 KB

Number of Pages

N/A

eBook ISBN

9781434001467

Awards

• ABC Children's Booksellers Choices Awards