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The Rabbit And The Turtle

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Almost everyone has heard and come to love Aesop's fables as a child. It's fun to hear someone retell the fables in their own words and it is even better to listen to a child guess the moral of the story. The inimitable Eric Carle has done the beautiful artwork and retold eleven of these tales for a new generation of listeners. Of course children can read these tales, but it is always more fun to listen to a storyteller's rhythmical voice relate a tale. How many of these tales do you remember and can you still hear the voice that may have told you the story?

The Lion and the Mouse
The Wolf and the Dog
The Fox and the Crane
The Cat and the Mouse
The Monkey and the Fox
The Rabbit and the Turtle
The Wolf and the Lamb
The Frog and the Ox
The Blackbird and the Peacocks
The Fox and the Crow
The Grasshopper and the Ants

The illustrations are unique and endearing. The stories, done in Eric Carle's own "voice," have a slightly different twist, but essentially remain the same as the classic tale. For example, the moral of The Lion and the Mouse is usually said to be "Little friends may prove great friends." In Carle's slightly different rendition it is "Friends come in all sizes and shapes." The print is fairly small and might be difficult for the young reader. This book would be a marvelous read aloud book in a classroom or homeschool setting. "Do not try to be something you are not." Can you guess which fable this moral comes from?

A nice quick read of stories most of us grew up reading with the moral clarified at the end for young readers.

Eleven fables illustrated by Eric Carle - one of our favorites. Each fable is medium-length and has a full-page illustration.

We like how these animals are wearing people-clothes. Eric Carle knocks my socks off.

The stories are:

1) The Lion and the Mouse
2) The Wolf and the Dog (The Collar)
3) The Fox and the Crane
4) The Cat and the Mouse (Belling the Cat)
5) The Monkey and the Fox (Be Yourself)
6) The Rabbit and the Turtle
7) The Wolf and the Lamb
8) The Frog and the Ox (this one is so funny!)
9) The Blackbird and the Peacocks
10) The Fox and the Crow
11) The Grasshopper and the Ants (happy ending)

my son is 4 and he loves animal stories, so this book was just perfect. We have been reading it every day for last two weeks and he is still nitrites of it.