Since the beginning of recorded history, fables have been a popular method of giving instruction. Each fable contains a short narrative that seeks to illustrate a hidden message. Generally speaking, ...

(Then:) The ant works hard in the oppressive heat all summer long, building his house, finding food and storing it for the long cold winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant to be a fool, laughs at his ...

Most people are familiar with the popular fable commonly attributed to Aesop, "The Ant and the Grasshopper". The ants work tirelessly through the summer collecting and storing food to last them ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. From upper left to center to lower center a trail of grasshoppers doing various activities. Upper right, profile of ...

Sam Sacks’s review of “Aesop’s Fables” (Books, Nov. 2) brings to mind a modern twist on an old classic: In the summer, the ants worked and saved, while the grasshoppers played. The ants warned that ...

If you’re old enough to remember Saturday morning cartoons, then you likely recall the classic merry melody about the grasshopper and the ant. It was based on Aesop’s ancient fable about preparing for ...

The Emberleys (The Ant and the Grasshopper) reinterpret a grim, lesser-known fable about two baddies whose natures come back to bite (and sting) them. From the get-go, the father-daughter team infuses ...

In a beautiful forest, a busy little ant works tirelessly to gather food. One day, while riding a dragonfly, he falls into a stream and is saved by a kind dove who drops a leaf for him to float to ...