I very much appreciate the attempt to take Aesop's tales back to their origins. The author notes that Aesop wanted people to think for themselves - true - and the various versions of these stories often took that "thinking" part away by adding all sorts of personal moral baggage. I found the attempt at poetry to be less successful - in places sentences are just hacked into different shapes, with rhythm and meter somewhat jerky or missing. Fundamentally, though, this is a good attempt at teaching original literature, and belongs in any classroom or supplemental education program.