Aesop's Fables

This book is loaded with folktales for all ages. It is chuck full of good morals to teach children. I would use this book to teach children about folklore and the many tales would be helpful in addressing friendship issues between students. I would recommend this book to children in K-4th grade. ( )

Beautifully written and illustrated version of the classic Aesop's fables. ( )

Pinkney doesn't a wonderful job bringing Aesop's fables to life. They are very well-written and his take on the fables are a little more detailed which I like. Some of my favorites areThe Shepard Boy and the Wolf,The Tortoise and the Hare and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.

Aesop's Fables is a collection of short tales with a moral. The illustrations in this edition are watercolors by Jerry Pinkney. The collection includes many of the classics I remember from my childhood like, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing and The Grasshopper and the Ants. Many of the fables are only one or two paragraphs long. My favorite is The Lion and the Mouse. It is about a lion who allows a mouse to go free and is later saved by the mouse. This was also my favorite fable as a child. This edition includes a full page watercolor of the lion being freed from the mouse.

Aesop's Fables has wide classroom applications. They could be used as a short read around. Children could also rewrite and modernize the tales, keeping the morals the same. A class could even create their own collection of modernized tales. ( )

Author/illustrator Jerry said in his introduction, that he either knew the moral or the tale of some of the stories, but hadn’t connected the two until this project. I felt the same way after reading this book. I knew many of the sayings, but not the stories they came from. Pinkney’s book put them together for me. This is a book steeped in thousands of years of common cultural wisdom. I see this as both a reference book and a contemporary storybook. The fables are still relevant for contemporary society. ( )