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 ...

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 ...

Aesop's Fables are some of the most famous ancient Greek tales with moral lessons in history, and many of the tales are used ...

Beverley Naidoo, illus. by Piet Grobler. Frances Lincoln (PGW, dist.), $18.95 (52p) ISBN 978-1-84780-007-7 In her introduction, Naidoo (who collaborated with Grobler on The Great Tug of War) points ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Orientation is vertical fore-edge to fore-edge. Fold-overs which when folded over transform the illustrations. "Flip the pages ... the picture lives." CHMRB copy 39088020040069 is the gift of Stephen ...