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 ...

Aesop’s Animals: The Science behind the Fables by Jo Wimpenny Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021 ($28) Come for the fables and stay for the behavioral research in this jam-packed but delightful collection ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Several chapters into Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables ...

Some stories never get old. In fact, in their retelling, they can timelessly spark creativity, fun, and learning, especially when shared as a group. Riverside Elementary School did just that this ...

According to “The Life of Aesop,” a text compiled in ancient Greece from a variety of legends, the man whose name is synonymous with the fable was born a slave in Phrygia (in modern-day Turkey ...

Had I known that Aesop’s fables were so unhinged, I would’ve turned to them long ago. ... Well, I was wrong. Robin Waterfield’s Aesop’s Fables: A New Translation (Basic Books, $30) renders them in all ...