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 languageChildren can recap the stages of the race between the hare and the tortoise on pages 14–15. Text type: A traditional taleCurriculum links: Citizenship: Animals and us, Literacy