A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): an Astrologer who says he can read the future in the stars walks along looking up, falls into a muddy hole he did not see at his feet, and is teased by the villagers who pull him out.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Astrologer: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
Long ago, a man watched the stars every single night.
“I am an Astrologer,” he said. “I read the future in the stars.”
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