A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): when a poor Woodman’s axe falls into a pool, the god Mercury brings up a golden axe, a silver axe, and his own, and rewards his honesty, but the Woodmen who pretend to lose their axes get only a whack on the head.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of Mercury and the Woodman: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
Chop! Chop! From sunup on, one poor Woodman swung his axe at a big oak beside a deep, dark pool.
By evening his arms ached and his swings wobbled. Whoosh! The axe spun from his hands. Splash! Into the water it went.
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