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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on October 1, 2013
In a worthy follow-up to his Caldecott-winning The Lion & the Mouse (rev. 11/09), Pinkney brilliantly illustrates another well-known Aesop fable. Like its nearly wordless predecessor, this one, too, requires readers to interpret the pictures, as the hare famously challenges the tortoise to a race and then naps through the better part of it. Tortoise's plodding journey across a desert landscape shows a host of critters native to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Folktales and Nursery Rhymes
In Pinkney's brilliantly illustrated, nearly wordless Aesop fable, Tortoise's plodding journey across a desert landscape shows a host of critter...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
