I really liked the English version of Aesop's fables and they were really fun to read. I thought it was really interesting that most of these stories had titles about animals, but then the stories that followed, which were often by different authors, just had "more" in front of the title. It's like they just picked up the last author's story from where they left off. For example, there is the story "Foxes", then the story right after it is "More Foxes".
My favorite story of Aesop's Fables is "Fables About People". I thought the story "The Dog and the Quaker" was really good and really unique. It was also really funny and I liked that the author made sure it rhymed, even if the words didn't really seem like they were in the right order. The story talks about a dog who stole a Quaker's bread and cheese. Normally, the man would have done something about it, but the Quaker religion didn't believe in people putting their hands on one of god's creatures, and if a person did that they would be punished, so he wasn't supposed to harm the dog. The man, however, was really upset that the dog stole his food and decided that he was going to punish the dog anyway. He yelled at the dog and ran after him, but ended up breaking his own bones.
I thought that this story was really humorous and entertaining and very fun to read.
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