Fun with Fables

The fable tradition began with Aesop. In these tales, animals show humans their character flaws. Fable-telling spread and developed into a beast epic like George Orwell's Animal Farm. 

All fables contain: Beginning - setting, characters in situations. Middle - An explanation of what the problem is and how the characters attempt to solve it. End - Moral or lesson learned from story.

The Fox and the Crow, from Aesop's Fables 

• A crow sat on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese.
  "Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, 'What a noble bird I see above me! Her beauty is without equal, the hue of her plumage exquisite. If only her voice is as sweet as her looks are fair, she ought without doubt to be Queen of the Birds.
  
  
• The crow felt flattered. To show the fox that she could sing she gave a loud caw. Down came the cheese and the fox, snatched it up, 'You have a voice, madam, I see: that you need wits.'
• Moral: Do not trust flatterers.

Do you have a favorite animal to use for storytelling?

Play and have fun writing from an animal's perspective.

Develop a fable or poem and stay open to insights that arrive.