fables

Nicholas, bored with guarding the family's sheep, is amused to see everyone come running when he fakes an attack, but things are not so funny when real trouble arrives and no one will help.

Tom and Elena's goose begins to lay a golden egg every day, but as the couple grows richer, Tom's greed begins to threaten their happiness.

This traditional fable describes the lives of two mice, one who lives in the city, the other in the country, and their respective visits to each other. Presents the fable first in Spanish and then in English.

A boy tending sheep in a field thinks it is a fine joke to cry "wolf" and watch the townspeople come running--until the day a real wolf appears and no one answers his call.

An inspiring allegory about realizing one's own destiny, told through the story of two caterpillars who struggle to climb to the top of a "caterpillar pillar" only to learn that they were meant to fly.

Retells the fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.

Antonio forgets that you "shouldn't count your chickens before they hatch".

On her way to sell milk at the market, a young girl dreams so much about what she will buy that she spills the milk she is carrying.

A retelling of the well-known fable in which a little mouse saves the life of the King of beasts.

Text in Spanish. A fable in rhyme about a mouse who snubs a suitor.