Petr Horacek is a Czechoslovakian writer and illustrator, now based in England, who has written extensively for children.
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

