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Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Beowulf by Unknown

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules by David Sedaris

March 10, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The whole of this post deals with how we tell stories and who we tell those stories to, and what it means to tell THOSE stories in Those ways. Mostly it’s a handful of audiobook I was listening to this wekeend as I played video games and drove around town.   Aesop’s Fables I teach Aesop’s Fables to students, especially my English 12 (collab/special education) class because it allows us to look very directly for the ways in which we connect the words of the […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: aesop, aesop's fables, Beowulf, children playing before a statue of hercules, David Sedaris, Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:139 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: aesop, aesop's fables, Beowulf, children playing before a statue of hercules, David Sedaris, Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling ·
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