When the shepherd boy is lonely and bored, he cries for help and the townspeople come running. After falling for the trick twice, the townspeople don't answer when a wolf really does appear! Find the moral to Aesop's fable in the easy-to-read, brilliantly illustrated Short Tales Fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Short Tales is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Publishing Group. Grades 1-4.