Fables are ancient stories told to offer ethical guidance. Aesop, a Greek slave who lived about the sixth century BC, wrote hundreds of them, usually featuring animals such as the story of the boy who ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lessons and tales of “Aesop’s Fables” will be brought to life at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday at the Schorr Family Firehouse Stage in Johnson City, when Robert Rogers Puppet Company shares ...

Like many of you, I have been spending a lot of time during the past week thinking about Aesop’s Fables. If your days have not been spent in deep contemplation of those pithy morality tales from ...