The Hare and the Tortoise

by Melanie Williamson

Published 2 September 2013

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