In this delightful retelling of Aesop’s well-known fable, children’s-book-award winner Melanie Williamson captures the story of the slow and steady tortoise and the overly-confident hare.




In this delightful retelling of Aesop’s well-known fable, children’s-book-award winner Melanie Williamson captures the story of the slow and steady tortoise and the overly-confident hare.
Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language
Children can recap the stages of the race between the hare and the tortoise on pages 14–15.
Text type: A traditional tale
Curriculum links: Citizenship: Animals and us, Literacy

Series edited by: Cliff Moon
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