A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a Father whose sons are forever quarreling asks each of them to break a bundle of sticks, then shows them how easily the sticks snap one by one.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Bundle of Sticks: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
Once there was a Father who had a family of sons. His sons were forever quarreling. They argued and shouted all day long.
“That's mine!” “No, it's mine!” “You started it!” The Father spoke to his sons again and again. But no matter what he said, they kept right on quarreling.
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