Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timelessstories, for every child

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics toa new generation – including this epic edition of Aesop’s Fables.

The original Aesop Fables, introduced by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick.

Over two hundred familiar tales from ‘Look Before You Leap’ and ‘The Boy WhoCried Wolf’ to much less familiar tales, each with its own sharply pointedmoral.

About the Author

Aesop lived in the early sixth century BC on the island ofSamos, which lies off the coast of modern Turkey. He originally came fromThrace which was a separate country in those days, though it now forms part ofGreece and Bulgaria.

Very little is known about his life except that he worked asa slave on Samos for a master called Iadmon, and that he became a very famousstoryteller.

He was so famous that almost any fable whichcouldhavebeen told by him became attributed to him.