On YouTube
The read-aloud with the words and pictures, free, ready to play on your living room television. Each chapter is text-on-screen, with the text already brought up to date.
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Aesop's Fables
A Kindred Thicket Revised Edition.
A read-aloud of Aesop's Fables from the much-loved Milo Winter 1919 edition, with free character cards and coloring pages and a companion guide.
Ways to experience Aesop's Fables
The reading is free on YouTube. The companion guides go alongside it.
In the Listening Grove
The Aesop's Fables audiobook on a page, structured the Charlotte Mason way, so you can listen together with no video to watch.
Browse the fablesOn Yoto
For the car or bedtime, a free Kindred Thicket audio pack compatible with the Yoto app, so the same narration travels with your family.
Get the Yoto packFables
Press play to hear a fable read aloud, or open it for the lesson, the video, and more.
Fable 1The Wolf and the Kid
Fable 2The Tortoise and the Ducks
Fable 3The Young Crab and His Mother
Fable 4The Frogs and the Ox
Fable 5The Dog, the Rooster, and the Fox
Fable 6Belling the Cat
Fable 7The Eagle and the Jackdaw
Fable 8The Boy and the Filberts
Fable 9Hercules and the Wagoner
Fable 10The Kid and the Wolf
Fable 11The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Fable 12The Fox and the Grapes
Fable 13The Bundle of Sticks
Fable 14The Wolf and the Crane
Fable 15The Donkey and His Driver
Fable 16The Oxen and the Wheels
Fable 17The Lion and the Mouse
Fable 18The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf
Fable 19The Gnat and the Bull
Fable 20The Plane Tree
Fable 21The Farmer and the Stork
Fable 22The Sheep and the Pig
The materials
We do the planning. The reading is free, and the companion guides bring the copywork and drawn narration pages, prepared to go with each fable.
Complete Companion Guide
For each set of eleven fables: single-sentence copywork and drawn-narration pages, kept small and gentle.
Coming soonCopywork
Passages from the fables at three graduated levels, in both print and cursive, in two sets: Fables 1-11 and Fables 12-22.
Shop the CopyworkBonus Set
FreePrintable character cards and coloring pages, free when you join the Kindred Thicket email list.
Get the free setQuestions about Aesop's Fables
Which edition is this based on?
The public-domain Milo Winter 1919 edition, with its beautiful illustrations. We keep the archaic flavor and swap only words that have since become crude, so the fables stay charming for a child.
What comes in a companion guide?
Each companion guide covers eleven fables and contains single-sentence (Level-1) copywork and drawn-narration pages. The printed moral and vocabulary are not in the companion guide; the moral stays optional in the read-aloud itself.
What is free?
Printable character cards and coloring pages, sent when you join the email list.
When is it available?
The read-aloud videos are available now, free on YouTube, and fables 1 to 22 can also be heard in the Listening Grove, with more on the way. The free character cards and coloring pages come with the email list. Copywork for Fables 1-11 and 12-22 is on Gumroad now, and the companion guides are coming soon.
We do the planning. The books come alive. Your child does the learning.
Last updated October 22, 2026