Janet Stevens, Author, Aesop, Author, Janet Stevens, Adapted by Holiday House $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8234-0633-3 With her customary charm, Stevens offers a version of this Aesop's fable that ...

You've no doubt heard Aesop's famous fables a few times: The story of the tortoise and the hare, which teaches us that "slow and steady wins the race," or the tale of the boy who cried wolf, which ...

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 ...

Had I known that Aesop’s fables were so unhinged, I would’ve turned to them long ago. Having encountered your standard-issue tortoise and hare, boy who cried wolf, town mouse and country mouse, et al.

The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World Porter Fox Little, Brown, 2021 ($28) With each new report about the impending—and ongoing—effects of ...

Aesop is big this publishing year. There are at least three new collections, several stand-alone fables, and more coming along in 2001. Why all the renewed interest? One reason is publishers' penchant ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Several chapters into Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables, zoologist and ...

Teen actors performed “Aesop’s Fables” for children and their families at Kutztown Community Library on June 20. The teens also performed June 25 at Bethel-Tulpehocken Public Library and Bernville ...

"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 ...

"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 ...