Many of us learned the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ in grade school. You will recall that once the mother pig sent her little pigs off into the world, the first pig built his house with straw. The ...
In the Aesop Fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant," there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time, or any other. As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summer days singing ...
Young readers and experienced artisans alike will find much to admire in Wormell's (Teeth, Tails, & Tentacles) richly colored showcase of linocuts, which salute Aesop and wood engraver Thomas Bewick ...
It doesn't take much to spin Aesop's fables into business lessons. The Hare and the Turtle and any number of other tales, though written around the 5th century BCE, can be easily made relevant to ...
Most adults and children know the story of the "Three Little Pigs," so I won't delay the point with a recant of this fable. Instead, let's go right to the moral: It is more prudent to invest (time and ...
Like many of you, I have been spending a lot of time during the past week thinking about Aesop’s Fables. If your days have not been spent in deep contemplation of those pithy morality tales from ...
Though they were rendered ages ago, Aesop’s famous fables contain some financial lessons that can apply to people’s personal money situation today. There are investment, saving and frugality lessons ...
As the warthog dances, pirouettes and leaps across the pages of Alex Beard's newest "Tale from the Watering Hole," he tells absurd lies that any jungle beast would recognize as pure, self-aggrandizing ...