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For several hundred generations, Aesop's fables reigned supreme as a means of teaching children simple morality.
Nowadays, he is mostly ignored in a world of Harry Potters and Jane Blondes.
Such a shame - the morality is easily taught, still appropriate and best of all, retains appeal to children with the anthropormorphised animals to carry the stories.
Next time you're in a second-hand bookshop, buy a copy of Aesop's Fables and give it to a family with young kids.
You know, you're right. And i don't believe I have any Aesop at home. He's worth having.
Yes, great idea. We read some of his fables at school, and I remember them not as entertaining, few things at school really are, but by their meaning. I rememner the simple way of directing us children towards the right and in the end obvious clue.
The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk
A Mouse who always lived on the land, by an unlucky chance formed an intimate acquaintance with a Frog, who lived for the most part in the water. The Frog, one day intent on mischief, bound the foot of the Mouse tightly to his own. Thus joined together, the Frog first of all led his friend the Mouse to the meadow where they were accustomed to find their food. After this, he gradually led him towards the pool in which he lived, until reaching the very brink, he suddenly jumped in, dragging the
Mouse with him. The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam croaking about, as if he had done a good deed. The unhappy Mouse was soon suffocated by the water, and his dead body floated about on the surface, tied to the foot of the Frog. A Hawk observed it, and, pouncing upon it with his talons, carried it aloft. The Frog, being still fastened to the leg of the Mouse, was also carried off a prisoner, and was eaten by the Hawk.