Aug. 18 (UPI) --Anthropomorphic, or human-like, animals are often the protagonists of children's books. But new research suggests parents who want their kids to pick up on a story's moral lessons ...

Fables are ancient stories told to offer ethical guidance. Aesop, a Greek slave who lived about the sixth century BC, wrote hundreds of them, usually featuring animals such as the story of the boy who ...

Aesop's The Lion and the Boar. Source: J van Kessel/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Fables, cartoons, and viral videos often favor animal over human protagonists. Here’s why. A fable is a short tale ...

In the Aesop Fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant," there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time, or any other. As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summer days singing ...

Most adults and children know the story of the "Three Little Pigs," so I won't delay the point with a recant of this fable. Instead, let's go right to the moral: It is more prudent to invest (time and ...