The calamities that befall the hapless creatures of Aesop's Fables! The fox can't reach his grapes, then gets attacked by biting flies, and loses his tail in a trap. And things don't go much better for the hare, who is chased relentlessly by a hound, barely escaping with his life-only to be beaten in a race by a lowly tortoise. Misfortune turns to mayhem when a wolf is killed by his sweetheart's father, a sheepdog preys on his own flock, and the mouse...

Retells the fable about a colony of industirous ants which busily prepares for the approaching winter while a grasshoper makes no plans for the cold weather to come.

Eight of Aesop's best-loved tales, specially adapted for young children and read by some of Britain's most well-known actors. The stories are: The Lion and the Mouse read by Richard Briers/The Caged Bird and the Bat read by Brenda Blethyn/The Fox and the Goat read by Jonathan Pryce/The Lion and the Elephant read by Alison Steadman/The Crow and the Pitcher read by Alison Steadman/The Fox and the Stork read by Jane Horrocks/Two Travellers and a Bear

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Tortoise and Hare race along a road filled with traffic signs, and the other animals cheer them on.

In this wordless retelling of an Aesop fable, an adventuresome mouse proves that even small creatures are capable of great deeds when he rescues the King of the Jungle.