‘Oh it will be wonderful to have this fat goat as my meal’. Once a hungry wolf was in search of his prey. “Morals: Don’t judge a book by its cover or treat people differently because they look different.”

“Peep, peep,” they said.“Quack, quack!” said Mother Duck.But one egg did not crack-one very big egg. One by one, the eggs cracked open.Eight yellow ducklings poked out their heads. One day, a mother duck felt her eggs begin to shake. In the middle of the forest there was a very big pond. For her birthday one year, the king gave her a golden ball as a present. It was her favorite toy. They lives in a castle surrounded by a large forest. Once upon a time, far, far away, there lived a king who had a beautiful daughter who was a princess. “Morals: Happiness through true love and selflessness. Furious at finding the children trespassing, he chases them out and proceeds to build a wall around his garden. One day, the giant returns home from a seven year visit to his friend, a Cornish ogre. This week’s theme was classic tales.A group of children would play in the garden belonging to a giant each day after school. Join the facebook group to keep updated on the weekly themes and activities! This is part of the Weekly Virtual Book Club for Kids series. Want to Download the Aesop’s Fables Books? 🙂 Now she looks through the books and can re-tell the stories on her own. I read her all of them in one sitting, then she promptly told me she wanted me to make even more of them! I may do some fairy tale ones next. My daughter was so thrilled with these little books. So if you need to save color ink, I have you back! Or, if you want to give your kids the option to color them in, that is a lot of fun, too! I made all of the books in color and in black and white. Each book has the moral of the fable on the last page so you can discuss it with your kids. I have summarized the fables into simpler terms for young children. Included are the following fables:Įach mini book is six pages long. My printable set includes 10 popular Aesop’s fables. About the Aesop’s Fables Printable Mini Books However, I often feel like they are a bit over the heads of my younger children, so these mini books are a clever way to help them learn some of the more common of Aesop’s fables. I have read these fables with my kids a few times and we always love them. It is a lovely hardcover book with nice old fashioned illustrations that I adore. We have the book Aesop for Children, illustrated by Milo Winter. (See more of my book activities for kids.) In order to make them more understandable and fun for my preschooler, I decided to make a set of mini printable Aesop’s Fables books.

I love reading them with my kids and then discussing the morals of each little fable. Aesop’s Fables are such a wonderful set of classic stories to read to kids.

Fables for kids with pictures