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 ...

A squirrel one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes, hanging from a vine trained along the highest branches of a tree. He thought, I should like to eat those grapes, for they would provide me ...

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 ...

"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 ...