The inventive duo who brought the world such zany tales as The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and The Stinky Cheese Man now offer an inimitable tribute to Aesop. “Fables have been around for thousands of years,” the author explains. “And it’s no wonder. Because even thousands of years ago people were bright enough to figure out that you could gossip about anyone as long as you changed their name to something like ‘Lion’ or ‘Mouse’.” He’s also sure that these tales about squids and dawdling grasshoppers could easily have been created by Aesop “if he were alive today.”