The Hare and the Tortoise

In this delightful retelling of Aesop’s well-known fable, children’s-book-award winner Melanie Williamson captures the story of the slow and steady tortoise and the overly-confident hare. • In this delightful retelling of Aesop’s well-known fable, children’s-book-award winner Melanie Williamson captures the story of the slow and steady tortoise and the overly-confident hare. • Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language • Children can recap the stages of the race between the hare and the tortoise on pages 14–15. • Text type: A traditional tale • Curriculum links: Citizenship: Animals and us, Literacy