Aesops Fables
Origin of the fable

If your looking for children famous fables, then one would start by reading the morals of aesops fables. A Aesops Fable is short stories that, besides fictional, would have animals talking and personified...

These short stories with animals usually appeal to children and these normally intend to teach a moral.

This is a great way to get the little ones attention because they're entertaining and captivate their attention whilst they still have a limited focus span.

They're so meaningful that, even in our adult life, they remain as a clear picture in our minds from our childhood literature. Who wouldn't remember about a hare and tortoise disputing a race.

Fables are so old that their origin trace back to Ancient Greece but some believe that they came from earlier times in history.

It wasn't uncommon to have stories told where animals would talk and act like people. And many of these were past down from generation to generation.

But when we refer to fables, we associate it to Aesop. He was a slave that lived in Ancient Greece between 620-560 BC and he was a story-teller too. Many of the stories we hear today, so well known, such as The Tortoise and the Hare or The Boy Who Cried Wolf, are credited to him, according to the Greek historian Herodotus.

It was so long ago that it is still shrouded in mystery and we don't know for certain where he came from or if he was African or not. Still, what remains is that we got to inherit the Aesopica, even if other fables may have mixed through time. Indeed one of the first illustrated books ever published.

Fables are made up animal characters, animals talking or singing a song, just like normal people. They are fun to read with some great illustrated art work. And above all, it's just a great way to pass on a teaching and a moral perception. Remember proverbs like, Apearances Are Often Deceiving, well that's from The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, or Slow and Steady Wins the Race from the Hare and The Tortoise.

I guess that's why it's such a great success and one of the reasons why it was passed on from one culture to the other.