<p>In 'Fifty Famous Fables,' Lida B. McMurry presents a curated anthology that resonates with the intellectual and moral appetites of second-grade readers. With her selection, McMurry endeavors to foster interpretative skills and ethical reasoning in young readers by allowing the narratives to reveal their own teachings, rather than preemptively defining the moral. Written with an astute understanding of a child's perspective, the fables are comp...