40 of Aesop's best-known fables are brought to life in adaptations for children aged 5 to 9. Each story is five minutes long and read by an all-star cast including Brenda Blethyn, the late Richard ...

Many of us learned the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ in grade school. You will recall that once the mother pig sent her little pigs off into the world, the first pig built his house with straw. The ...

They’re quite dark, all about people betraying you. They’re lessons to watch out for vanity, betrayal, they’re the fundamentals of human behaviour. Brakes are quite a moral band, immoral in a lot of ...

Aesop's The Lion and the Boar. Source: J van Kessel/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Fables, cartoons, and viral videos often favor animal over human protagonists. Here’s why. A fable is a short tale ...

Fiction: Aesop's Fables: The Cruelty of the Gods Carlo Gebler and Gavin Weston New Island, €19.95 Aesop's Fables: The Cruelty of the Gods The linear economy and moral weight that Aesop imbued his ...