Big Cat – The Hare and the Tortoise: Band 03

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