"The Hare and the Tortoise" & other fables (Aesop - Volume 1)

 

With his mom's help, Lailan, a 5-year-old student, reads three famous stories that you'll truly love: "The Dog and the Bone," "The Hare and the Tortoise," and "The Thirsty Crow". Believed to have been written by an ancient Greek writer named Aesop, these stories are called fables as

Lewis Carrol's "The Mouse's Tale"

 

"The Mouse's Tale" appears in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, or Alice's Adventures Under Ground in the manuscript version. It foreshadows the nonsensical trial depicting an anthropomorphic entity called the "Fury" that condemned the mouse to death at the finale of the book. When the classic English novel's titular character, Alice, is told of the mouse's sad story, his "long and sad tale",