Suitcases packed with fables! Lunch bags filled with fairy tales! Satchels stuffed with poetry! Reading Road Trip is traveling through springtime, turning our attention to page-turning tales of Once upon a Time....
According to legend, on a Greek island in the sixth century B.C., a man named Aesop labored as a slave and created more than two hundred stories that have captured imaginations across the centuries and around the world. While Aesop’s life remains shrouded in mystery, the Greek slave’s fables survive through traditional storytelling and books published in many languages.
According to legend, on a Greek island in the sixth century B.C., a man named Aesop labored as a slave and created more than two hundred stories that have captured imaginations across the centuries and around the world. While Aesop’s life remains shrouded in mystery, the Greek slave’s fables survive through traditional storytelling and books published in many languages.
A fable is a short story that ends in a moral-- an important message to be learned from the story.
Let’s start our Reading Road Trip with A Sip of Aesop by Jane Yolen. The author and editor of folklore and fantasy presents Aesop’s fables—and morals—in clever rhyme.
Why Aesop?
Aesop was an ancient Greek
And spoke no language I can speak.
So I have put his tales in verse
With hopes I haven’t made them worse.
Moral:
In prose or rhyme
There is a moral:
Aesop Aeppeals
In print—or oral.
--Jane Yolen
Fourth and fifth grade fable fans have been flocking to LMC shelves in search of two titles that Mrs. Cifrodella introduced to library classes: The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School and The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School, both by children's author Candace Fleming.
In the first laugh-out-loud book, a teacher takes over an unruly fourth grade class-- with unexpected and highly entertaining results.
In the fifth grade sequel, boisterous students spend a zany school year learning fable-like lessons from unforgettable activities and unconventional teachers.
In the 1987 Newbery Medal-winner The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman, a bratty prince and his whipping boy find outrageous adventure when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
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| Cinderella Slipper by Molly H. |
In Cinderella-inspired, 1998 Newbery Honor Book Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, Ella struggles against a childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
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| Cinderella Diorama by Caroline Q. and Carlin C. |
When thirsting for laughter and lessons and rhyme...
Just turn the pages and take a sip
of fables and tales from a different time
in the LMC via Reading Road Trip!
in the LMC via Reading Road Trip!
