Category: Aesop Fables

Friendships That Endure: Aesop’s Fable, ‘Two Travelers and a Bear’

True friendship is characterized most by loyalty, for loyalty is the virtue that sustains friendships through any hardship. Loyalty gives us the courage to remain with friends, even when there is no advantage to be gained. In his short story, “Two Travelers and a Bear,” Aesop shows how easily our friendship can be tested and…


Detmold’s Illustrations: The Finishing Touch for a Beautiful Book

Today we don’t think about books much—you know, those hold-in-your-hand objects we used to study in grade school. Before information came to us through computers, printed books were the key to knowledge. People wanted books in their homes; they filled their home libraries with books worth reading and that mattered to them. People wanted beautiful books…