A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): when a huge Bear surprises two Men in the forest, one scrambles up a tree to save himself, and the other lies still on the ground until the Bear walks away, then says what the Bear seemed to whisper in his ear.
Read first 3 pagesThe opening of Two Travelers and a Bear: A Gentle Retelling, free to read.
Two Men were on a journey together. Their path led through a deep, shady forest. Crunch, crunch, crunch went their boots on the dry leaves.
All at once, there was a loud CRASH! A huge Bear burst out of the bushes, very close to them. It was big and shaggy and wild. GRRR!
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