Many of us learned the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ in grade school. You will recall that once the mother pig sent her little pigs off into the world, the first pig built his house with straw. The ...

Fables always are interesting little stories. I remember listening to them in kindergarten and watching the cartoon adaptations on TV. I remember loving how the animals could talk and how they made ...

“The definition of a fable shouldn’t be cramped,” wrote author, illustrator and humorist James Thurber in 1956. “It can embrace any pointed and recognizable aspect of human behavior, turned out in a ...