40 of Aesop's best-known fables are brought to life in adaptations for children aged 5 to 9. Each story is five minutes long and read by an all-star cast including Brenda Blethyn, the late Richard ...

Androcles, a slave, is mistreated by his master, so attempts to escape by running away into a forest. After a while, he stops to rest, but encounters a fiercely roaring lion. Androcles fears that ...

Hogrogian’s 2002 children’s book ... Yet her career, spanning more than 60 books, also helped retell traditional fables from other countries including a 19th-century German story about ...