A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): when the little Frogs tell of a great big monster, an Ox, the old Frog puffs herself up and asks, “Was he as big as this?” Much bigger, they tell her each time, so she puffs and puffs until, pop, she bursts.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Frogs and the Ox: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
Thud, thud, thud! The ground shook. A big, thirsty Ox was coming to the frog pond.
Splash! One big foot came down on a little Frog. The little Frog never came up.
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