Aesop's Fables

The tortoise and the hare, the ant and the grasshopper — the ancient Greek fables that taught the West its first lessons, one talking animal at a time.

A moral in every animal

In this collection

• Hyacinth
• Signs of Spring
• Tommy a' Lynn
• Nell's Fairy-Tale
• The Hunting of the Snark
• Smoked Skipper
• The Moon and Her Mother
• Wee Ones' Bible Stories: Jacob and Esau
• The Sunday-School Picnic
• Little Bobtail
• The Sons of Kai
• The Camelopard
• Stories Told by the Miller
• The Secret of the Garden
• The Magic Shoes and Staff
• Kindness to Animals
• Charles Augustus Fortescue
• The Sand-Hills of Jutland
• The Fly and the Draught-Mule
• Bobby's Pocket
• The Tower of Babel
• The Cat
• How Freckle Frog Made Herself Pretty
• Little Miss Oddity
• The Happy Six
• The Cat and the Fiddle
• Wee Ones' Bible Stories: Ruth and Naomi
• The Trippertrots and the Hand-Organ Man
• Jupiter and the Monkey
• The Broom of the Temple
• Nid and Nod
• The Gold Thimble
• Foolish Children
• The Girl that Lost Things
• The Inquisitive Girl Anon
• The Prodigal's Return
• Bunny Face and the Spirit of Christmas
• The Dog
• The Wood-Pigeons and Mary
• Henry Goes Prehistoric
• The Prince and the Pauper, Part 4
• The Last of the Stories
• A Rabbit Story
• Still I Love to Rhyme
• Puss in Boots
• Songs for Parents: Song for a Child Watching Clouds
• Man-size in Marble
• A Perplexed Little Rabbit
• To Monseigneur the Dauphin
• The Grasshopper and the Ant
• The Raven and the Fox
• The Wolf and the Lamb
• The Bat and the Two Weasels
• The Bird Wounded by an Arrow
• The Eagle and the Beetle
• The Lion and the Rat
• The Dove and the Ant
• The Hare and the Frogs
• The Cock and the Fox
• The Raven Wishing to Imitate the Eagle
• The Fox and the Goat
• The Fox and the Grapes
• The Swan and the Cook
• The Ass and the Little Dog
• The Monkey and the Dolphin
• The Frog and the Rat
• The Fox with his Tail Cut Off
• The Satyr and the Traveller
• The Horse and the Wolf
• The Ass Carrying Relics
• The Hare and the Partridge
• The Lion and the Hunter
• The Stag Seeing himself in the Water
• The Hare and the Tortoise
• The Sun and the Frogs (Book VI)
• The Sick Lion and the Fox
• The Dog that Dropped the Substance for the Shadow
• The Hog, the Goat, and the Sheep
• The Lobster and her Daughter
• The Fox, the Wolf, and the Horse

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