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 ...

Aesop is big this publishing year. There are at least three new collections, several stand-alone fables, and more coming along in 2001. Why all the renewed interest? One reason is publishers ...

E ve ryone knows about Aesop and his fables, but few have ever read straight through any serious collection of them, never mind Ben Edwin Perry’s unsurpassed Aesopica of 1952, which assembles 725, ...

Bookshelf; Children’s Books: Visiting Earth, Channeling Aesop Reviews of ‘The Spaceman,’ ‘Orris and Timble: The Beginning,’ ‘Colossal Words for Kids’ and ‘Growing Up Under a Red ...

Had I known that Aesop’s fables were so unhinged, I would’ve turned to them long ago. Having encountered your standard-issue tortoise and hare, boy who cried wolf, town mouse and country mouse, et al.