Most readers have only encountered a handful of Aesop's fables, and then usually in a cleaned-up form, loaded with morals that would have been alien to their author. While the story of the tortoise ...
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 ...
"Using fabric collages, Lynch stitches together a smorgasbord of (13) fables into a colorful picture book quilt," wrote PW. Ages 4-8. (Nov.) ...