When I was a child in the sixties, there used to be very short cartoons, the length of a commercial on the television. After
while, it is hard to distinguish between them
fables of aesop and fables other people.Fables are a genre. They tell a simple, almost childlike, story. They almost always have a moral. The fable I remember the most is called "The Fox and the Grapes". One day a fox was walking down a path when he saw a vine of grapes up above him. He stretched and jumped to get a bunch, only to fall. After awhile, he walked away saying, "Those grapes were sour anyway".If you, the reader are stuck for a
present for a child, a copy of Aesop's Fables would make a great present.Even better would be to memorize a few of the fables to tell to the children in your life.