Have you ever wished you could go back in time and fix something that happened in your past? In the children’s picture book “The Tortoise and the Hare Race Again,” that very thing takes place. It all begins with a bad hare day. The hare feels mocked and belittled as the other animals laugh at his failure to defeat the tortoise. He did come in second, but in a race between two people, that’s really not saying much, now, is it? All the rabbits made it their business to tease the hare whenever they see him. In fact, Stu Rabbit … Continue reading →

Of course it was the title that caught my eye first. But the fascination with this children’s book didn’t end there. We begin with a tongue-in-cheek introduction, telling us what a fable is and introducing us to Aesop, undoubtedly the most famous of all fable-tellers. We are then told that this book is a collection of fables Aesop might have told, if he’d ever gotten around to it. First we read the story entitled “Grasshopper Logic.” A short tale in favor of doing one’s homework, the moral of the story is, “There are plenty of things to say to calm … Continue reading →