Review: MANY MANY YEARS AGO
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2013
When I rode my dinosaur to school (you know that's not possible! Dinosaurs died out before man came along.), there was a program called 'Fractured Flickers'. Those cartoons included history lessons from Sherman and Mr. Peabody, a talking dog, and the occasional morality lessons by Aesop.Aesop was supposedly a Roman slave. He taught by examples, usually from the animal kingdom.Aesop's Fables rarely lasted more than 5 minutes. His son was usually in a predicament or asked a question, Aesop told his story, said "the moral is...", the Aesop's son twisted the moral to some smart alec remark.Funny, I can't remember any of the smart remarks, but I do remember the morals of Aesop's stories.This short book includes four of Aesop's tales. As always, I learned something and didn't have to suffer through the experience myself.That's the easiest kind of lesson.All four fables star a fox, though Aesop did write about a variety of animals.The lessons are easy to understand and the artwork is appropriate for a young child.To find more books about Aesop, look in the Amazon index.