Books with title The Clever Tortoise

Clever Tortoise cuts a couple of bullies down to size in this traditional African folktale.Elephant and Hippo are bullies. Big, strong, and selfish, the two friends boss and frighten all the other animals in the jungle, making life in their formerly harmonious community unbearable. But one day, Clever Tortoise calmly declares that size and strength aren't everything. Soon he proves it, hatching a plan to outwit the two tyrants with the tug-of-war to end all tugs-of-war. Who will be left standing when Tortoise's ingenious contest is over? Francesca Martin's spirited adaptation of a traditional African folk story-complete with a glossary of African words-and her rich illustrations will have kids cheering as wit and quiet wisdom triumph over brute strength.

Suitable for children in Year 1 (age 5), The Clever Tortoise is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories from a Range of Cultures. Children should be familiar with some of the stories in this set of nine books. The stories draw on myths, legends, folk tales and fairy stories, including Aesop's Fables, and originate from various countries including Nigeria, and South America. The Clever Tortoise is one of six stories that have been written and illustrated by Gerald Rose. They are retold in contemporary language and illustrated with simplified characters and bold colours that will appeal to young children. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading.

Excerpt from The TortoiseEdward Heaton found himself so much in accord with the sour psychologist that as he finished dress ing he made some excellent resolutions, such as he often did when he looked cheerft forth on the morning of another day, and this rather unpleasant reminder in the fact that he was indubitably forty put an edge on to the steel with which he prepared to carve himself into the immediate future. He told himself that, though he felt young enough (and in matter of physical and artistic vigour was young enough), it was certainly time to give visible token of the reality of his powers, and set to work without delay. There, below his bedroom window, was the roof of his arena, the studio in which he had so many delightful little gatherings, which grouped them selves round different sketches of his, in each of which, when he began it, he divined a potential masterpiece. There they stood, some slightly dirty, some even a little faded, some still not yet quite dry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A major reading scheme for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years. Cambridge Reading Big Books provide texts in a size that is big enough for the teacher to give large groups of children a shared experience of the same text and to demonstrate early reading skills and strategies. They are ideal for implementation of the Literacy Hour. This is a Big Book version of the popular Becoming a Reader phase title The Clever Tortoise.

Suitable for children in Year 1 (age 5), The Clever Tortoise is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories from a Range of Cultures. Children should be familiar with some of the stories in this set of nine books. The stories draw on myths, legends, folk tales and fairy stories, including Aesop's Fables, and originate from various countries including Nigeria, China and South America. The Clever Tortoise is one of six stories that have been written and illustrated by Gerald Rose. They are retold in contemporary language and illustrated with simplified characters and bold colours that will appeal to young children. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...had not made the most of herself. Without fighting Rosemary, it was possible to pick up a hint or two from her. All her forces which had instinctively begun to mobilize themselves without generalship must be taken in hand. They must be taught not only to present a decent show on parade, but to be fit for the field. There was a certain terrain which her tactics must succeed in occupying.... But--it was this that gave her pause--as far as she knew no opposing host desired to occupy it, for, if she probed down into her convictions, she found none that told her that Rosemary was contemplating its occupation. That she did not believe. But was the terrain in question desirous, by a plebiscite of its denizens, to cede itself to the adjoining kingdom? She divined that she had nobody to fight. There was no symptom of hostility from Rosemary's country. All she had to do was to take peaceful possession of the land she coveted. She was not jealous of anybody. She firmly denied the imputation she had brought against herself. Things had gone unusually well with Marion all morning: the glitter of the lunch-table the day before had been quite satisfactorily embodied in the second chapter of 'Bill' (Lord William Talbot-Howard); she had found the pumice-stone precisely where Daisy had prophesied she would, and she consulted her sister on various points of psychology as they sat at lunch. ' Sometimes I almost wish I had devoted more time to the actual experiences of life," she said. "I found myself strangely unable yesterday morning to invent the sort of light talk that you and Mr. Teddy and Miss Paulton indulge in without apparent effort. There's a glamour about it. You had the glamour tremendously yesterday, Daisy. I find it difficult to imagine...

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