Fables are allegorical tales, illustrating a moral or satirizing human behavior. The characters of a fable are usually personified animals. Important collections of fables are those of Aesop, Jean de la Fontaine, Ivan Krylov, the Buddhist Jataka tales, and the Indian Panchatantra.
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- Frog Fables Fables and parables with frogs as the character.
- Fable Infoplease.com short overview.
- Fifty Famous Fables Selected for second grade reading by Lida Brown McMurry.
- The Stuffed Fabulist A collection of contemporary fables, parables, and other reports of "things that go bump in the night."