A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of the Brothers Grimm tale “The Hare and the Hedgehog”: a proud hare mocks a hedgehog’s crooked legs, and the hedgehog wins their race by hiding his look-alike wife at the far end of the field.
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One sunny Sunday morning at harvest time, larks sang over the buckwheat on Buxtehude heath. While his wife washed the children, the hedgehog stepped out, humming. “I’ll go and look at my turnips,” he said.
“My turnips,” he called them. After all, they grew right by his door, and his family ate them! Near the sloe bush, a prickly shrub by the field, he met the hare.
The hare was off to see his cabbages. “Good morning!” said the hedgehog. But the proud hare did not answer. “Why are you running about so early?” he sniffed.
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