A collection of animal fables and folklore from such sources as the Bidpai fables, Aesop, Panchatantra, Grimm, and Wu Cheng-en.

A CD and more than 50 poems introduce poetry with a beat. Included are poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou among others.

At a time when all of America is debating the wayward course of contemporary manhood, one thing has been missing from the conversation: a source to which concerned readers might turn for guidance and inspiration, a path back to the wisdom of our shared tradition of manly virtues. Missing, that is, until now. In What Is a Man? historian and commentator Waller R. Newell collects three thousand years of the finest and most thought-provoking writings...