Fables and Learning Stories

Short tales designed to teach moral lessons and values in order to transmit a cultures accumulated wisdom. Aesop, John La Fontaine. Typically have animal characters referred to by the name of the animal. Moral at the end of the tale, many collections are beautiful illustrated, also individual fables are available.

            Learning stories also teach cultural values and moral lessons but are longer, more complex texts that feature both human and animal characters, morals not explicitly stated, different listeners often gain different insights from learning story.

Aesop's Fable: The Tortoise and the Hare, read by Levar Burton:

La Fontaine's Fable: Short Summaries of 10 Fables