Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were, written by a slave named Aesop, who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th-century BCE. Aesop's fables and the Indian tradition as represented by the Buddhist Jataka Tales and the Hindu Panchatantra share about a dozen tales in common although often widely differing in detail. There is, therefore, some debate over whether the Greeks learned these fables from Indian storytellers or the other...

As it changes from mouse, to cat, to dog, to tiger, a hermit's pet also becomes increasingly vain.

Colorfully illustrated retelling of Aesop's fable about the race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

After trading houses, the country mice and the town mice discover there's no place like home.

An illustrated collection of eight fables retold from Aesop, including "Cat's Bell," "Tortoise and the Hare," and "Wolf and the Dog."

The sun and the wind test their strength by seeing which of them can cause a man to remove his coat, demonstrating the value of using gentle persuasion rather than force as a means of achieving a goal.

Retells in verse the Indian fable of the blind men discovering different parts of an elephant and arguing about its appearance. The illustrations depict the blind arguers as mice.

A boy tending sheep on a lonely mountainside thinks it a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the people come running--and then one day a wolf is really there, but no one answers his call.

Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich