Aesop's Fables with Colin Hay

By Tom Graves

Colin Hay, the former frontman for the best-selling Australian rock group Men At Work, narrates his first audiobook with Aesop’s Fables with Colin Hay, published by Devault-Graves Digital Editions. Hay, who has toured the world as a solo performer and achieved critical acclaim as a raconteur along with his intimate songs, has also acted in films and done voicework for the Disney organization. Award-winning author Tom Graves wrote new translations of 24 classic Aesop’s tales that instantly connect with children of the new millennium yet retain the old world flavor so beloved by young and old alike. According to Graves, Colin Hay was a natural for this Aesop’s project due to his Scottish accent with its slight twist of Down Under. “Colin has a wonderful accent and speaking voice that I thought would be perfect for Aesop’s, giving it a touch of the old world but with an unmistakable modern attitude,” Graves says. “Colin knocked it out of the ballpark in his reading. In test audiences, children have loved this version of Aesop’s.” Colin’s millions of fans will also love Aesop’s Fables with Colin Hay. The book is available in audiobook and an illustrated ebook is also available for those who would like to read along.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jun 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781942531234

Tom Graves

Tom Graves has been an independent consultant for almost three decades, in business transformation, enterprise architecture and knowledge management. His clients in Europe, Australia and the US cover a broad range of industries, including banking, utilities, logistics, engineering, media, telecoms, research, defence and government. He has a special interest in architecture for non-IT-centric enterprises, and integration between IT-based and non-IT-based services.

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Aesop’s Fables with Colin Hay copyright © 2016 by Tom Graves. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form, except for inclusion of brief quotations in a review, without permission of the publishers. Published by Devault-Graves Digital Editions, Memphis, Tennessee.

eBook ISBN: 978-1-942531-23-4

Cover artwork: Martina Voriskova

Cover photograph: Marty Smith, Boxing Clever Pictures

Title page artwork: Revised by Martina Voriskova from

original artwork by Arthur Rackham

Other photographs: Tom Graves

Illustrations: Milo Winter and Arthur Rackham

Devault-Graves Digital Editions is an imprint of

The Devault-Graves Agency, LLC

Memphis, Tennessee.

The names Devault-Graves Digital Editions, Lasso Books, and Chalk Line Books

are all imprints and trademarks of The Devault-Graves Agency, LLC.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Androcles and the Lion

The Ant and the Grasshopper

The Bear and Two Travelers

The Blue Jay and the Peacock

The Boy and the Jar of Peanuts

The Cat and Venus

The Crows and the Pitcher

The Dancing Monkeys

The Dog and His Shadow

The Donkey in the Lion’s Skin

The Eagle and the Snake

The Father and His Two Daughters

The Frogs and the Well

The Goose That Lay the Golden Egg

The Lion and the Mouse

The Miser

The Mule and the Prospective Buyer

The Popular Lady Rabbit

The Rose and the Amaranth Plant

The Thief and the Innkeeper

The Tortoise and the Hare

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Tying the Bell on the Cat

This is the companion book to the audiobook of

Aesop’s Fables with Colin Hay that is narrated

by Colin Hay. We invite

you to read along with Colin or enjoy

reading this book just by yourself.

ANDROCLES AND THE LION

ONCE UPON A TIME in the ancient days of Greece, there was a Greek slave named Androcles who suffered under the lash of a cruel master. When he could stand no more of his master’s punishment, he fled into the forest hoping to escape such cruelty once and for all. As he wandered about the dark and dense forest, he became aware of a host of sights and sounds that he had never heard nor seen before, because as a house slave he had been kept indoors most of his life to serve his master.

One day in the forest Androcles heard an awful moaning and groaning and could not help but be curious as to what was making the horrible racket. As he neared, he almost died of fright, because right in front of him was an enormous lion with his claws extended and his loud roars were enough to stand his hair on end. Androcles at first turned to run but noticed that the lion had not moved. Seeing that the lion was incapacitated and in great pain, he went up to the lion bravely and asked if he could help the lion in some way. The lion held out his mighty paw which was bleeding and swollen to twice its normal size. Androcles could clearly see that a very large thorn had worked its way deep into the lion’s paw which was causing it great agony and suffering. Androcles could not stand to see the suffering of others, whether they be man or beast, and hoping the lion would not eat him, he went about his work to remove the troublesome thorn. He extracted the thorn and could hear at once