Worldwise Fables

Every culture has a story worth hearing, and every story gets a fair telling.

Worldwise Fables retells fables and folk tales from around the world, one honest story at a time.

These are old stories, the kind passed down through generations in villages, courts, and by firelight long before anyone wrote them down. Some teach a lesson outright. Some just leave you thinking. All of them earned their place by surviving centuries of retelling.

Every culture gets a fair telling here. No story is treated as more sophisticated than another, and none is flattened into a stereotype of where it came from. The point is the same one these stories have always served: a good tale, told well, with something true sitting at the end of it.

Made for curious viewers of any age who like a good story with a point, and a companion to the book series Fables and Stories of the World.

Free coloring pages, crosswords and English-learning packs at worldwisefables.com