A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a Fox who laughs at his neighbor the Stork serves him soup in a flat dish he cannot eat from, and the calm Stork returns the favor with a fish dinner in a narrow-necked jar.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Fox and the Stork: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
The Fox always laughed at his neighbor, the Stork. To the Fox, the Stork looked very odd, with long skinny legs and a long, pointy bill.
One day the Fox thought of a plan. “I will play a trick on that Stork,” he said to himself, “just to have some fun!”
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