Margie Johnson is an instructional technology specialist at Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools in Tennessee. Students use handhelds to compose a story with a moral. Writing is a critical area ...

WASHINGTON — Aesop was a writer, possibly of African origin, who lived more than 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece. But although he's long gone, his famous fables — or those credited to him, if not ...

It doesn't take much to spin Aesop's fables into business lessons. The Hare and the Turtle and any number of other tales, though written around the 5th century BCE, can be easily made relevant to ...

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 ...

BEAVER CREEK – At the hands of master puppeteer Jim West, the fables of Aesop will come to life in Beaver Creek Wednesday as the Vilar Center for the Arts presents West’s production of “Aesop’s Fables ...

Back before electronics and video games, a major pastime for children was reading, and most can remember a favorite children's story - one that had a profound influence on shaping values and attitudes ...

Aesop's The Lion and the Boar. Source: J van Kessel/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain A fable is a short tale that features animals or other non-human entities (the sun, the wind, trees…), and ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In The Great Tradition, Leavis suggested that there exists an identifiable tradition of English literary works ...

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 ...