In the final session of our Aesop’s Fables unit the children move to the story of the Lion and the Mouse. They show how the Lion catches the Mouse and then sets him free, only to be caught ...

A mouse happens upon a sleeping lion in the forest. Unwisely, he climbs up onto the lion and boasts about how mice need not be scared of lazy lions. The lion, by now not asleep, grabs the mouse ...

As a child, one of my favorite things to read was fables. Whether it was the Aesop’s, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Lion and the Mouse, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, or one of his many others, I read ...