Reading Notes: Aesop's Fables, Extra Credit

Grass hopper talking to ants
Source: Un-Textbook

For this extra credit reading on Aesop's Fables, I will be focusing on the story "Insects, Fishes, and Frogs" by Sir Brooke Boothby. In this story there are eight different miniature stories. The first story is "The Ant and he Grasshopper" and in this story a grasshopper asked for food from an ant but the ant refused and mocked the grasshopper for singing and dancing in the summer and not working. The next story is "The Gnat and the Ox" and in this story is about a gnat sitting on an ox who thinks his weight is tiring the ox out. The next story is "The Fly" and in this story a fly thinks hes the cause of clouds in the sky. The next story is "The pike and the Herring" and is about a pike who is a big and fierce creature but soon comes to realize from a herring that there is always a bigger fish in the sea. Up next is the story "The Angler and the Little Fish" which is about a small fish who was caught and tells the fisherman to let him go because he is too small to eat and should wait till next year where he will be bigger. The fisherman said no and said that its better to have a fish then no fish at all. In the next story "The Crab and her Daughter" a crab tries to teach its daughter how to walk but she doesn't listen. In "The Two Frogs, which is the next story, two frogs lose their marsh because it dried up so they look for a new home and find a well. One frog says its perfect but the other realizes that if it dries up then they will be stuck. The last story is "The Frog and the Fox" which is about a frog who wants to be a physician but a fox puts him down. This stories were very fun to read and I thought I could recreate some of them but in a different setting.

Bibliography: "Insects, Fishes, and Frogs" by Sir Brooke Boothby