There’s a tempting offer of the book to help parents with material to include in the scheduled activities for this Summer break, so don’t delay or procrastinate; go get the good deal at The Aesop For Children before this offer is retired. Just skip to the bottom of the home page, under the “Buy Now” button and follow the instructions (Don’t click on the “Buy Now” button or you will miss the offer).
The title might seem a little bit fussy, but it reflects a true statement made by a member of a team of scientists studying the reasons why some trees are drought-resistant, while others perish regardless the expectations for their resistance to the lack of water in their surrounding environment.
The point to focus here is not about the veracity, or credibility of the scientific assertion mentioned above, which is quite deep and interesting.
It is rather about the way the scientist matches a Nature’s behavior of members of the vegetation realm with the moral extracted from the human behavior, as applied in the story of “The Tortoise and the Hare”, found among the fables attributed to Aesop.
This becomes more interesting when we notice that the wisdom extracted from the Aesop’s fables can be and, in fact, are applicable also to the behavior of other living forms different than the human and animal realms!
Ha! It’s nice to recall the old times when we were scholars and the last day of school was the next day. How many feelings related to the freedom to come, the family activities, the scheduled journeys, and so on.
Read the following post to refresh your mind and thoughts, maybe even to increase your heartbits.
This time, it’s the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre and School of Theatre Arts who will present its annual Spring Student Showcase on Monday, June 9, at 7 p.m.
Students in grades 3 to 6 will play “The Fabulous Fable Factory” by James Robinette, a re-telling of Aesop’s fables. Tales include “The Country Mouse and the City Mouse,” “The Farmer and the Donkeys,” and “The Lion and the Mouse” — all told in a fun and fast-paced comedy style.
This is family time again, so, PARENTS: take advantage of the lessons to help your children acquire the wisdom in the morals ending each tale.
To read more about the program schedule and details click here.
But not all activities are going to be developed indoors, see the Press Release from The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, Cal. for some outdoors presentation of the Aesop’s fables. Click here for details.
It’s interesting to see the way Wisdom and Calories Restriction plans can relate to Aesop’s fables.
This story is about Mary Robinson, a woman that has devoted at least 8 years to live a healther life by actively practicing calories restriction with optimal nutrition dieting.
She’s still young to think of retirement, however, see how she links CR to her career and money strategies in life and compares it to the moral in one of the Aesop’s fables, “The Ant And The Grasshopper”. For in-depth details visit
At least 9 Public Libraries will host presentations of a modern version echoing the Aesop’s fable “The Ant and the Grasshopper” played by Rhythmically Speaking during this Summer break, in an effort to fit the children’s summer reading theme, “Catch the Reading Bug!”. The programs are free and open to the public. For details on the dates of each presentation, read the
Today, I found this interesting article calling the attention to parents upon the convenience to get ready to plan their children’s continuous cultural growing up while enjoying off-school activities. But, beware, not all literature helps to get good results.
Digg a bit until you find some titles that worth the while to be read and don’t forget to include the Aesop’s fables in the list of books to pick up for reading.
Remember that Aesop’s fables have been classified among the ageless titles by an expert reader of many genres of literature (visit Beth Ezell’s blog), which means that, regardless your children’s ages, they can always benefit from the wisdom derived of this classic “evergreen” reading.
The article gives some advise to schedule things in a mood compatible with our children’s wishes, like half-hour beach readings, which promises to be really amusing.
Plan ahead and enjoy Summer vacations with your children!
Yes, I’ve always loved cartoons since I was a kid. They were so funny and easy to understand without too much wording because in my case, one single images meant more than 100 words.
Aesop’s fables are not an exception to this. They mean so much to human culture that many versions have been derived in different formats, including drawings, sculptures, comics, filmes and lately, video among others.
Watch below a japanese version of one of the most well known Aesop’s fables, “The Tortoise And The Hare” and return to your childhood like I did.
I’m impressed to see the many different ways people enjoy while reading aloud stories with morals to their little family ones, because they experiment helping their kids to grow wiser in life. This is one of the benefits mentioned in previous postings to this blog.
Below is a quote taken from a blog of a mother that has enjoyed teaching her son through the reading aloud to her son some of the Aesop’s fables. Read it to reach your own conclusions about the convenience of saving family good traditions.
“What I got out of this is that I want to try and bring books to life more often. It really showed my son that he can take things from his imagination and make them a reality. I also like that every time the books that inspired the creativity are reread, these experiences will be remembered.”
Now, I invite you to take your time, visit this blog and watch the beautiful pictures she’s taken showing her kid playing to repeat by himself what the moral in the fable inspired him to do.
Hmmm! It depends upon the kind of tradition you refer to. It’s not the same to talk about a family tradition of reading books than that of robbing banks like the one shown in the film Machine Gun Kelly, where the Mom was the leader in a bank robbery gang. That’s pretty clear though!
Today I want to tell you about Beth Ezell, a full-time homeschooling mother of 7 that after 40+ years of intensely practicing the family tradition of reading aloud books to children is thanking her parents for the seed they planted in her since she has memory. Now, she’s doing the same with her kids regardless their ages.
She is, undoubtedly, an authority to this tradition and her personal opinion is that the Aesop’s fables are a good reading indeed. In fact, she classifies books according to the age ranges she finds best for reading them to kids, and places the Aesop’s fables under the group of books that are appropriate and good reading for people of all ages.
Visit Beth’s blog and read it all, because you’ll be amazed of the results of saving the good family traditions generation after generation. To see her classification of the Aesop fables, click on the link below,