Many of us learned the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ in grade school. You will recall that once the mother pig sent her little pigs off into the world, the first pig built his house with straw. The ...

In the Aesop Fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant," there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time, or any other. As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summer days singing ...

WASHINGTON — Aesop was a writer, possibly of African origin, who lived more than 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece. But although he's long gone, his famous fables — or those credited to him, if not ...

Young readers and experienced artisans alike will find much to admire in Wormell's (Teeth, Tails, & Tentacles) richly colored showcase of linocuts, which salute Aesop and wood engraver Thomas Bewick ...

"Right," the lady bristles in a broad Lancastrian accent as my little Hero tells her of her husband's infidelity in Fable. "I'm going to turn him into Balverine food!" As she thanks me for my kindness ...

A comfortably plump dog happened to run into a wolf. The wolf asked the dog where he had been finding enough food to get so big and fat. ‘It is a man,’ said the dog, ‘who gives me all this food to eat ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --Anthropomorphic, or human-like, animals are often the protagonists of children's books. But new research suggests parents who want their kids to pick up on a story's moral lessons ...