Been reading a kids book of Aesop’s Fables to the kids and I’m struggling to take it seriously.
The reading level its written for and the laboured metaphors of talking animals just remind me of long LinkedIn posts or really bad boomer memes.I keep telling the kids we’re going to read some stories to help us excel at B2B sales
It says they’re retold by Ann McGovern and the intended reading level is grade 4. Copyright also goes back to 1963 so they’ve just been reprinting this thing
Most of Aesop’s fables were deeply political at the time of writing and were never intended for children. They were the only safe way to speak truth to power in an autocracy. Especially for a slave like Aesop was. I suspect that they’ve been ‘edited for political correctness’ a number of times over the last 2,500 years too.
Been reading a kids book of Aesop’s Fables to the kids and I’m struggling to take it seriously.
The reading level its written for and the laboured metaphors of talking animals just remind me of long LinkedIn posts or really bad boomer memes.I keep telling the kids we’re going to read some stories to help us excel at B2B sales
Please post the name and author lol
It says they’re retold by Ann McGovern and the intended reading level is grade 4. Copyright also goes back to 1963 so they’ve just been reprinting this thing
Most of Aesop’s fables were deeply political at the time of writing and were never intended for children. They were the only safe way to speak truth to power in an autocracy. Especially for a slave like Aesop was. I suspect that they’ve been ‘edited for political correctness’ a number of times over the last 2,500 years too.