That’s what children’s book author Tricia Brown did when she wrote the children’s book “The Itchy Little Musk Ox” What would happen, she wondered, if a little musk ox had an itch on his back? An itch ...

Aug. 18 (UPI) --Anthropomorphic, or human-like, animals are often the protagonists of children's books. But new research suggests parents who want their kids to pick up on a story's moral lessons ...

In the Aesop Fable "The Grasshopper and the Ant," there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time, or any other. As the story goes, the lazy grasshopper wiles away his summer days singing ...

Some years ago, as a little boy, I read a story by an unknown author about a little girl who fell down a well, only to be greeted by an old woman who promised her much if she would only help her with ...

In a Cambodian children’s folktale, one man is afraid of lawyers and another is afraid of filth. As the story goes, both are constantly bombarded by their fears despite their efforts to avoid them.

Margie Johnson is an instructional technology specialist at Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools in Tennessee. Students use handhelds to compose a story with a moral. Writing is a critical area ...

Most adults and children know the story of the "Three Little Pigs," so I won't delay the point with a recant of this fable. Instead, let's go right to the moral: It is more prudent to invest (time and ...