Reading Diary B: Aesop (Winter)

My favorite stories from the second unit of Aesop for Children, illustrated by Milo Winter are:

The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse. The characters are the mouse and its mother. Others characters are a cock and a cat. I loved the innocent way the young mouse told the story to his mom. The lesson was very powerful: Do not trust alone to outward appearances. In other words, do not judge a book by its covers. Which is very widely known.

The Peacock and the Crane. The Peacock and the Crane are the two characters. The setting is in a field. I liked the lesson the story provided even though it was such a short story. The lesson was: The useful is of much more importance and value, than the ornamental. I liken this to those people who waste money on useless things rather than useful things. 

The Fighting Bulls and the Frog. The main characters are two Bulls and some Frogs. The story is super short but has a lesson that can be liken to the state of our society. The lesson is: When the great fall out, the weak must suffer for it. Our society is currently divided into the rich, the poor, and the middle. And when the rich falls, the poor must suffer. 

The Mouse and the Weasel. Two characters: the Mouse and the Weasel. The setting is inside a corn basket. The lesson is stated everywhere over and over again. That is why I liked it because people nowadays need this lesson more than any others. The lesson is: Greediness leads to misfortune.

The Goatherd and the Wild Goats. A Goatherd and some Goats are the characters. This was my favorite because I have some friends who complained about this experience: It is unwise to treat old friends badly for the sake of new ones. They had other friends who had done this to them and then they expect to come back and be treated the way they were before.

Page 13 was by far my favorite of all the pages! Hence, I picked an image from Page 13.

The Fighting Bulls and the Frog from Aesop (Winter).