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 ...

Some stories never get old. In fact, in their retelling, they can timelessly spark creativity, fun, and learning, especially when shared as a group. Riverside Elementary School did just that this ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

All these questions and more are explored in this fresh adaptation of Aesop's Fables, dually inspired by the classic morals of these stories and the troupe of student actors who will bring them to ...

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 ...

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 ...