The original Aesop Fables, introduced by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick.Over two hundred familiar tales from 'Look Before You Leap' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' to much less familiar tales, each with its own sharply pointed moral.Puffin Classics come with additional end material including author profile, things to think about and do, a glossary, and more.
This book features in the following series: Brimax Classics, Puffin, Puffin Classics .
This book has been graded for interest at 9-11 years.
There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published in 2013 by Penguin Random House Children's UK .
AESOP probably lived in the middle part of the sixth century BC. A statement in Herodotus gives grounds for thinking that he was a slave. BRIAN J. ROBB is the New York Times and Sunday Times best-selling biographer of Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt. He's also written acclaimed pop culture books on silent cinema, the films of Philip K. Dick, Wes Craven and Laurel and Hardy, and TV series Doctor Who and Star Trek. He is co-editor of the popular web site Sci-Fi Bulletin and lives in Edinburgh.
This book contains the following story:
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
There was a shepherd boy who liked to tease his fellow farmers by crying wolf when no wolf was there. The farmers would come running to help rescue the sheep, but when they arrived they would be met by the chuckling boy. But once a wolf did come to worry the sheep, and the boy cried out for help. But this time no-one came as the farmers no longer believed him, and the wolf killed all the boy's sheep. The moral of the story is that lying has consequences, and that people who repeatedly tell lies will eventually lose the trust of others. Through the story, readers are meant to learn the importance of honesty and the consequences of deceitful behavior.
This book features the following characters:
Marcus Sedgwick
This book features the character Marcus Sedgwick.
Aesop
This book features the character Aesop.
