Review: no happy endings
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 22, 2011
This book has 53 locations, so it takes only a few minutes to read. It contains 5 nice drawings and 4 stories; of these 2 have an unhappy ending.(Spoiler alert!)In the end of the story 'The Fox and the Goat' the goat is left in a waterwell (whithout a means to get out). In the story 'The fox and the Cat' the fox is killed.Aesop lived around 600 BC in Greece and he probably only collected and compiled the fables, and did not write them himself. Some of the fables might even originate from Mesopotamia and be more than 4000 years old. The fables of Aesop are moralistic, didactic stories in which animals act like people. Each fable ends with a lesson, for example: the lesson of the story 'The Fox and the Goat' is: 'Never trust the advise of a man in difficulties'.I believe the fables to be unsuitable for kids.The complete fables are available on the web for free.