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Aesop’s Fables
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Aesop (620 – 560 BCE) was a Greek slave and storyteller. His fables, also known as the Aesopica, have been translated and retold for twenty-five centuries. Each one ends with a moral or a lesson to be learned, and from them we learn the origin of adages such as “sour grapes,” “add insult to injury,” and “look before you leap.”
Aesop’s Fables
Although not as pretty or as well organized as some of the other sites, AesopFables.com does have the entire text of 655 of Aesop’s fables and 127 fairy tales from Hans Christian Andersen. Best click for students is Selected Fables which includes eighty-six Aesop fables “selected for their ease of reading and concise moral understanding.” Look for the Real Audio logo in the lower right-hand corner of some of the story pages to hear Long’s ten year old daughter read the fable.
BBC: Aesop’s Fables
The BBC brings forty of Aesop’s most popular tales to life for kids ages five to nine with professionally produced audio clips. In addition to the gallery of clips, the site includes a PDF for teachers with tips for using fables in the classroom, and writing your own fables. Look for free download on the Teacher’s Notes: English page. “The fables generally communicate some kind of moral message, often through the depiction of animals, who speak or otherwise take on human characteristics.”
The Color: Aesop’s Fables
This collection of seventeen Aesop’s Fables coloring pages can be either colored online or printed on paper for old-fashioned coloring fun. Some of the fables represented are Goose with Gold Eggs, The Fox and the Ox, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, and the Ant and the Grasshopper. If you register for a free account, you’ll be able to save your colored pictures, and might even see your masterpiece featured on The Color’s homepage.
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Aesop’s Fables Printable
Aesop’s Fables Wikipedia Printable
Greek Mythology Printable
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“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” ~~ James Thurber ~~ (December 8, 1894–November 2, 1961) American humorist and cartoonist. You can read more quotes from James Thurber here: https://www.lightafire.com/quotations/authors/james-thurber/.
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