Aesop’s Fables, with Zombies!

Ten short fables retold with zombies, for reading aloud to children. Nine are Aesop's. The zombies are slow, silly and harmless, and each story ends on its moral. The boy who cried wolf is Leo, the village zombie-spotter, who shouts "Zombies!" once too often. The tortoise and the hare race to the Great Carrot Patch past zombies holding a staring contest with a garden gnome. A zombie named Bartholomew collects buttons all summer and has a coat when the frost comes. A wolf dresses as a zombie to get at a pile of Gummy Grains, and his wagging tail gives him away. Also here: the lion and the mouse, the fox and the grapes, the dog and his reflection, the farmer and his sons, and the goose that laid the golden egg. No gore, and nothing meant to frighten. About 4,300 words, text only: the pictures from the print edition are not in this one. The first fable, The Boy Who Cried Zombie, is free to read.

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