Books with title Aesops Fables for Children

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were written by a slave named Aesop, who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE. Aesop's fables and the Indian tradition as represented by the Buddhist Jataka Tales and the Hindu Panchatantra share about a dozen tales in common although often widely differing in detail. There is therefore some debate over whether the Greeks learned these fables from Indian storytellers or the other way, or if the influences were mutual.

Aesop (c620-c560) was by tradition a slave who was a contemporary of Croesus and Peisistratus in ancient Greece. These fables are taught as moral lessons and used as subjects for various entertainments, especially children's plays and cartoons. This book is brought to you by Worldreader, a global non-profit that believes everyone can be a reader. Since 2010, we’ve provided 3 million readers with a low-cost library of over 30,000 relevant ebooks in 43 languages. We produce freshly designed and edited public domain classics to ensure our readers have consistent and free access to the world’s great books. Through your purchase, you are supporting readers and reading everywhere. Find out more at www.worldreader.org.

These new and delightful fables expand on the themes that Aesop wrote about and now concern the issues, vices, and virtues of this century. These new 45 fables, which involve animals, insects, people, and objects, touch on a variety of social, moral and even political themes that are particularly relevant to this time. The fables, which have been written for third and fourth grade levels, will appeal to both young and old.

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