Greek Fable
Phaethon
Don’t overestimate your abilities. When young Phaethon goes to see his father, the sun god, he persuades him to lend him his solar chariot. How does Phaethon’s ride end?
At the edge of the forest stood an old crooked
Really and truly! There were tiny ‘classrooms’ between the branches. In one of them, spiderlings were learning how to weave delicate webs; in another, colourful beetles were flitting about. In the third, athletic grasshoppers and crickets skipped and hopped up and down like crazy. And high up in the top of the tree were classrooms full of pollinators.
For these insect babies, this tree was like a second home, and they looked after it as best they could. Not surprisingly, the tree produced more apples than any other tree in the neighbourhood — as if to reward its young
One of the pollinator classrooms was particularly buzzing
“Every pollinator must get to know the various blossoms as well as they know their own
Bumblebee Vroom watched his classmates as they painted beautiful petals, stems, and leaves using their tiny legs as
“Vroom, you’re fidgeting
Vroom quickly leaned over his picture, aiming to do more work. But then what happened? Waves of heat tickled his back through the tree