"What did you do during the warm season?" asks the ant of her neighbor, the cricket, whom she is asking for some grain for her winter quarters. "I sang day and night for everyone, if I may say so," replies the artist of life. "You sang? That makes me very happy. Well then, dance now!" The collection contains around 50 of the most beautiful fables from Aesop to James Thurber, vividly and unmistakably illustrated by Reinhard Michl: the cat as a doctor, the bear as a therapist, or the goose that lays golden eggs; all fictional stories that reflect the truth. "The fable shows that liars only achieve one thing: that no one believes them even when they tell the truth." Aesop, The Joking Shepherd.