A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): Mother Crab scolds her son for walking sideways, but when he asks her to show him how to walk straight, she can only go sideways too, and trips onto her nose.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of The Young Crab and His Mother: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
Scuttle, scuttle! A little Crab walked over the wet sand. He walked sideways.
His mother watched him go. Sideways, sideways, sideways! Mother Crab frowned.
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