A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a proud giant Oak pities the slender Reeds that bow in every breeze, until a great hurricane comes and the Oak that will not bend falls, while the Reeds bow low and do not break.
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A little brook ran past a huge Oak tree. Slender Reeds grew in the shallow water right beside it. Reeds are tall, thin grasses that like wet places.
Whoosh! The wind came hurrying, but the Oak did not budge. Up went its hundred branches, like arms reaching for the sky. It stood tall and proud.
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