Aesop's fables

1. A group of stories thought to have been written by Aesop, a Greek storyteller. The main characters in these stories are animals, and each story demonstrates a moral lesson. (See also “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” “The Fox and the Grapes,” and “The Tortoise and the Hare.”)

Example Sentences

Jefferson denounced Washington's speech as “shreds of stuff from Aesop’s fables and Tom Thumb. ”

From Literature

But reach high atop that dusty bookshelf and grab “The Tortoise and the Hare” from Aesop’s Fables.

From Los Angeles Times

“Winter legends are the equivalent of Aesop’s Fables,” Treuer added.

From Seattle Times

When it was too hot to be at the beach, too hot to think about moving a muscle, we read Aesop’s fables and worked through sets of spatial-reasoning exercises, which to my relief she found the opposite of a chore, something akin to play, much the way I had.

From New York Times

Pig Pal is similar to the animal characters from “Aesop’s Fables,” one of Lincoln’s favorite books from childhood.

From Washington Post