John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Lesson: Exploring Russian Folktales
Expand on your students' knowledge of storytelling with this lesson plan on Russian folktales. Provides several links to examples, assessment criteria, and a short list of other sources.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Fable and Trickster Tales Around the World
The lessons presented in this website "introduce children to folk tales" and how these folktales are changed and affected by generational and cultural values. Includes several links to further related information on folktales, fables,...
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: The Moral of the Story Is...
The site provides ten trivia questions about fables. Fables from Aesop and from The Holy Bible are included in this quiz.
University of Massachusetts
Aesop's Fables
Very unique site that presents Aesop's Fables with traditional and modern pictures. Pictures are created by art students at University of Massachusetts Amherst. There is an index to search by individual stories.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Fractured Fairy Tales and Fables With Jon Scieszka
In this resource students will have an opportunity to learn about fractured fairy tales and fables with the help of Jon Scieszka. This site also features a writer's workshop where students can write their own fractured tale and publish...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Lion and the Spider [Pdf]
"The Lion and the Spider" is a one page fable about a lion who tried to get a spider to make a web for him big enough to catch his food. The spider said that was not possible, the lion tore down its web, and the spider bit him on the...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Turtle and the Ducks [Pdf]
"The Turtle and the Ducks" is a one page fairy tale/fable a turtle who wants to fly south with the ducks. They develop a plan, but the turtle will have to keep his mouth shut. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Authors: Aesop
This site features the author Aesop including the full text of Aesop's Fables, a collection of fables.
Repeat After Us
Repeat After Us: Aesop's Fables: "Hercules and the Wagoner"
This site provides the text and audio for this translation of the Aesop fable "Hercules And The Wagoner." Available online, print, and download.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Fable
This is an encyclopedia entry for the word "Fable." It defines the term, explains its characteristics, provides background including Aseop's Fables and those from various countries, and offers a list of fabulists and their works.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Favourite Fables, in Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Favourite Fables, in Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir [1870], a collection of illustrated fables in prose and verse.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Story of Reynard the Fox by Wilhelm Von Kaulbach
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Story of Reynard the Fox by Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1861), a legendary fable.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Aesop's Fables by Aesop
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Aesop's Fables by Aesop (c1884), a collection of fables.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Aesop's Fables
A scanned copy of the 1897 publication of Aesop's Fables, a book of fables for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: A Hundred Fables of Aesop
A scanned copy of the 1899 publication of Aesop's Fables, a book of fables for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: The Baby's Own Aesop by Aesop
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Baby's Own Aesop by Aesop (1887), features fables condensed in rhyme and moral from the originals.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Reynard the Fox in South Africa by w.h.i. Bleek
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Reynard the Fox in South Africa, or, Hottentot Fables and Tales by W.H.I Bleek (1864), a collection of fables.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Aesops Fables by Aesop
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Aesops Fables by Aesop, (1880?) a collection of fables.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Select Fables From Aesop, and Others
A scanned copy of the 1852 publication of Select Fables from Aesop, and Others, a book of fables for children.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Baby's Book of Fables by Frederick Warne and Co.
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Baby's Book of Fables by Frederick Warne and Co., (1880?) a picture book of fables.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Book: Aesop's Fables by Aesop
This site features the full text of Aesop's Fables by Aesop, a collection of fables.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Morality "Tails" East and West
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Morality "Tails" East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
Other
U. Of Delaware Library: World of the Child
An accompanying website to the Two Hundred Years of Children's Books exhibition at the U. of Delaware Library provides examples of early works, fables, primers, poetry, stories before and after 1850 and pop-ups and movables.
Other
Personal: Fables of Jean De La Fontaine
This site has a short English biographical introduction. Each available fable appears in English translation, followed by the original French.