Aesop

Retellings of eleven of Aesop's fables.

After putting on a lion disguise, a silly donkey amuses himself by frightening all of the animals in the forest until he meets a clever fox.

A modern update on the classic fable of the lion and the mouse shares the relationship between two unlikely friends

In this retelling of the classic Aesop fable, hardworking ants stock up for the winter while a fun-loving grasshopper plays all year long, until the cold weather arrives and he realizes his mistake in not planning ahead.

When the town mouse and the country mouse visit each other, they find they prefer very different ways of life.

A farmer learns a lesson in greed when one of his geese begins to lay one--and only one--golden egg each day.

After meeting a well-fed dog, a half-starved wolf is ready to exchange his life in the wild for the daily comforts of food and shelter until he learns that a full belly is not worth the price of freedom.

An adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.

A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running, until the day a wolf is really there and no one answers his call.