A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a Fox jumps and leaps again and again for a bunch of ripe grapes hanging high on a vine, then walks off scornfully, saying they must be sour.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Fox and the Grapes: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
One sunny day, a Fox was trotting along a path. He looked up and saw a big bunch of grapes. They grew on a twisty green vine that curled through a tall tree.
The grapes were round and purple and ripe. They were so plump and full of juice, they looked ready to pop!
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