What is the moral of The Fox and the Stork?

Those who play tricks should expect to be tricked in return: one bad turn deserves another. The fox serves the stork soup she cannot reach, so she serves him a dinner he cannot reach.

Who wrote The Fox and the Stork?

It is one of Aesop's Fables, traditionally credited to Aesop, a storyteller said to have lived in ancient Greece around the sixth century BCE. Phaedrus told it in Latin and La Fontaine in French; this version is a VoiceSmiths retelling.

Is The Fox and the Stork the same as The Fox and the Crane?

Yes. Some English translations make the bird a crane instead of a stork, but the story is the same: a flat dish for the long-beaked bird, and a narrow jar for the fox.

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The Fox and the Stork

A sly fox serves a stork soup on a flat plate she can't sip from. So she invites him back, and serves dinner in a tall, narrow jar. Aesop's fable, retold.

Narrator

Mr Fox

Madam Stork

Wren, the messenger

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The Fox and the Stork is one of Aesop's Fables; the Roman poet Phaedrus told it in Latin verse, and Jean de La Fontaine retold it in French in the 17th century. A fox serves soup on a flat plate to a stork who cannot sip it, and the stork pays him back with dinner in a narrow-necked jar. This VoiceSmiths retelling adds a gossipy wren messenger and a make-up dinner at the end, as a full-cast audio story.

故事告诉我们

Don't play tricks on others unless you are ready to have the same trick played on you. A good host thinks about what each guest needs, and treats others the way they would like to be treated.

适合

Ages 4–9

讲给孩子听的小贴士

Show children a flat plate and a tall, narrow vase, and ask who could eat from each one.
Make the slurp, slurp and tap, tap sounds together during the two dinners.
Ask how the fox felt when his own trick came back to him, and what he did to make things right.

常见问题

What is the moral of The Fox and the Stork?: Those who play tricks should expect to be tricked in return: one bad turn deserves another. The fox serves the stork soup she cannot reach, so she serves him a dinner he cannot reach.
Who wrote The Fox and the Stork?: It is one of Aesop's Fables, traditionally credited to Aesop, a storyteller said to have lived in ancient Greece around the sixth century BCE. Phaedrus told it in Latin and La Fontaine in French; this version is a VoiceSmiths retelling.
Is The Fox and the Stork the same as The Fox and the Crane?: Yes. Some English translations make the bird a crane instead of a stork, but the story is the same: a flat dish for the long-beaked bird, and a narrow jar for the fox.