Here’s why. A fable is a short tale that features animals or other non-human entities (the sun, the wind, trees…), and concludes with an explicit moral lesson, often expressed in the form of a ...

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If you're hoping to find out more about the mind behind Aesop's Fables for kids, we explore the life of the moral man who ...

Displeased, the gods punished Delphi with blight and disease. That biography, of course, is really another fable. Its moral, ...