The tortoise and the hare

by Mark Schlichting

Recounts the famous tale of the race between the persevering turtle and the boastful rabbit.

Genres: Childrens

Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

Reviews

[May Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Animated narration

Slow and steady wins the race, indeed!

I may have read this many times already. Even know the story by heart, but reading it in a different format gives a whole new experience it feels like reading it for the first time again. Sad I do not have any of my niblings to read with me, but here’s me hoping that I get to share this with any or all of them soon while they’re still young.

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Tortoise and the Hare: A Retelling of Aesop's Fable by Mark White - I listened to this from Audible, and it's a cute retake of a classic! Happy Reading!

[Cj Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

From the title of this book, the author is teaching children new vocabularies. The word Tortoise is another word for turtle and Hare is another word for rabbit. Reading this book to my daughter, she kept telling me that the Hare would win the race because the Tortoise was slow and Hare are very fast. But by the end of this book she was very surprise to find out with determination and steady speed Tortoise would win the race. Yes, if the Hare was not so overly confident or so boastful he would definitely have won the race. He should not have taken Tortoise so lightly. This book teaches children that you should be humble when it comes to winning. Winning is nice and good but it is not everything in life and we as parents and teachers should teach this to our children. Children should be taught to have good sportsmanship regardless of winning or losing.

[Hope Garland]

In this retelling of the classic fable, Mark White successfully makes the fable easy to read for a young child while keeping the story intact. The story teaches its young readers that arrogance and laziness lead to defeat while determination and humility will put you on the road to success. There is nothing different or particularly special about this retelling to set it apart form all of the other adaptations of this well-known fable, but it is well-written, the pictures are bright and engaging for children, and the moral at the ending is clear without using the hackneyed phrase "and the moral of the story is...". I would definitely recommend this retelling of Aesop's fable to young beginning level readers.