Aesop; Park, Marmaduke

Aesop, in Rhyme: Old Friends in a New Dress

This book gathers many familiar Aesop fables in rhyme, including The Dog and the Wolf, The Boys and the Frogs, The Cock and the Jewel, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Milkmaid, The Bear and the Bees, and others. Each piece keeps the original fable structure: a short animal or human scene, a turn of wit or folly, and a moral that closes the lesson. The collection is best read in small portions, since the poems vary in tone and length, but together they offer a broad sampler of classic cautionary tales about pride, greed, vanity, selfishness, and good sense.