I recently read Dr. Jo Wimpenny's book Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables and simply couldn't put it down. 1 The clever ways in which Jo wove in current scientific facts about topics ...

Several chapters into Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables, zoologist and science writer Jo Wimpenny explains that, as a very young girl, she sometimes wanted to be a dog.

The first half of the volume is an 80-page biography of Aesop. The second part of the book is a 138-page collection of fables, including The Lion and the Pastor, The Horse and the Lion, and the Wolf ...

Aesop, with his tales of tortoises and hares, foxes and grapes, and wolves in sheep's clothing has been a part of world literature for over two thousand years. Since the time of the Ancient Greeks ...