《格林童话》产生于十九世纪初，是由德国著名语言学家，雅格格林和威廉格林兄弟收集、整理、加工完成的德国民间文学。它是世界童话的经典之作，自问世以来，在世界各地影响十分广泛。格林兄弟以其丰富的想象、优美的语言给孩子们讲述了一个个神奇而又浪漫的童话故事。在国内，日本，台湾也有根据《格林童话》创作的故事集。《不肖之子》，格林童话故事之一。 这个故事说的是一个不孝之子因为对自己父亲的不尊敬，导致了上帝对他的惩罚，忘恩负义的儿子再无安宁日子过了。

　　故事正文：

　　从前有一个人和他的女人坐在家门口，面前摆着一只烧鸡，正准备吃饭。

　　这时那人突然瞧见自己年迈的父亲向他们走来，便匆匆地把鸡收起来藏好，他不想与父亲分享这一顿美味佳肴呢!

　　老人来了，只喝了口水便走了。儿子又去把烧鸡重新端上桌来，可当他去端时，发现鸡已变成了癞蛤蟆。

　　蛤蟆猛地跳上他的脸，便粘在那里不再动了，谁要去赶它，蛤蟆就会恶狠狠地盯着他，大有要跳到来者脸上之势，从此便无人胆敢再去碰它了。

　　并且这个不肖之子还得每天好好犒劳这只蛤蟆，否则它就会咬他脸上的肉吃，这样这个忘恩负义的儿子再无安宁日子过了。

　　【不肖之子】的英文:The Ungrateful Son

　　A man and his wife were once sitting by the door of their house,and they had a roasted chicken set before them, and were aboutto eat it together. Then the man saw that his aged father wasing, and hastily took the chicken and hid it, for he wouldnot permit him to have any of it. The old man came, took a drink,and went away. Now the son wanted to put the roasted chicken onthe table again, but when he took it up, it had bee a greattoad, which jumped into his face and sat there and never wentaway again, and if any one wanted to take it off, it lookedvenomously at him as if it would jump in his face, so that noone would venture to touch it. And the ungrateful son was forcedto feed the toad every day, or else it fed itself on his face;and thus he went about the world without knowing rest.

　　【不肖之子】的读后感

　　尊老爱幼是中华民族的传统美德，文章中的主人公连自己的父亲都不尊敬，遭受到了应有的惩罚。这个故事告诉了我们在生活中要有礼貌，尊重长辈，关爱家人，从现在做起，从小事做起，关心身边的每一位朋友与亲人，让自己的生命变的更加有意义，让这个世界更加美好。