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Short Tales Fables: The Boy Who Cried Wolf


Fables

No. of pages 32

Published: 2014

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The tale concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his flock. When a wolf actually does appear, the villagers do not believe the boy's cries for help, and the flock is destroyed. The moral shows how lying is not rewarded.

 

This book features in the following series: Fables, Short Tales Fables .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2014 by Hachette Children's Group .

Rob M. Worley broke into writing comics with the kung fu and sorcery book "Young Ancient One", published by Marvel in 2004. Since then he's written for DC Comics, Actionopolis, Arcana, Image, Desperado, IDW and numerous other small press publishers.

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.

This book is in the following series:

Fables

Short Tales Fables

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