Pop-up Books and Fables

 

In 2nd grade, we learned how fables are a type of folktale, which are stories that were passed down orally over the years until they were finally written down.  Fables typically feature animals as the characters, who learn a lesson in the story. We read Pop-Up Aesop by John Harris and Caleb Brown, which featured several fables such as the Tortoise and the Hare. Students were asked to guess what the moral of each fable was, and we even made up our own fable on the spot. After reading, we watched a very interesting video about how pop-up books are made.