A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a Tortoise who longs to see the world is carried into the sky on a stick by two Ducks, but when a Crow calls him the King of Tortoises, he opens his mouth to answer and falls.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Tortoise and the Ducks: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
Meet the Tortoise. He wears a hard, round shell, and that shell is his house! Wherever he wanders, his house comes along.
Why? People tell an old story. Jupiter, king of the Roman gods, was having a wedding. He invited the Tortoise as a very special guest.
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