Puppets come to life to present tales of morality this weekend at North Central College. Jim West Productions present “Aesop’s Fables” at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday at North Central’s College’s Wentz ...

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 ...

Florida Studio Theatre will present Aesop’s Fables, part of its 2024-2025 Children’s Theatre Series. Adapted by Sarah Durham, this two-actor production debuts January 4 and runs through February 2 in ...

"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 ...

Crows are famously clever creatures — so much so that the birds' intelligence was recognized in ancient lore. In the story of "The Crow and the Pitcher" from Aesop's Fables, a thirsty crow drops ...

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 ...

Scientists have used an age-old fable to help illustrate how we think differently to other animals. The researchers expanded Aesop's fable into three tasks of varying complexity and compared the ...

Cambridge scientists have used an age-old fable to help illustrate how we think differently to other animals. Lucy Cheke, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge's Department of Experimental ...