Illustration by Milo Winter
{photo by janwillemsen on flickr / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0}
Just for fun, this week we rounded up a few links about dear old Aesop and his witty, wise fables:
VIDEOS:
Aesop: Biography of a Great Thinker – A short bio:
The Tortoise and the Hare – The classic 1934 Disney short:
Animated Aesop’s Fables: Fox and Crow – A rhyming version of this fable:
Aesop’s Fable: The Fox and the Duck – A cartoon version of this fable:
Golden Book Video Aesop’s Fables – The Wolf and the Lamb – Skip the first minute and a half of intro to watch this animated fable:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf – A read-aloud of the book by B.G. Hennessy, based on the Aesop fable:
Aesop and Son – A Dog and His Shadow The Winking Horse – Here’s a vintage cartoon from the Rocky & Bullwinkle show. It’s not an actual Aesop fable, but still fun:
Find more in this series here.
WEBSITES:
The Aesop for Children – A beautiful, interactive website containing a selection of Aesop stories, with illustrations by Milo Winter. From the Library of Congress.
Aesop’s Fables Online Collection – Here you can see the moral of each story listed next to its title.
Aesop’s Fables, Tradition and Modern – Find both a traditional and modern version of these stories on this website.
Aesop’s Fables Crafts and Coloring Pages
The Tortoise and the Hare Coloring Page
Aesop’s Fables online Jigsaw Puzzles
