Review
This 1985 book is being released as a lap-size board book. THE FOOLISH TORTOISE follows a unhappy tortoise as he makes his decision to take off his shell so he can be faster. He longs to run like the horses and dogs that he sees, but once he gets out and about without his shell, he realizes how dangerous the world can be. He sees snakes and birds that will be able to eat him. The sun makes him hot and the rain makes him wet. Finally, after the wind makes him cold, he decides that he is ready to go home and get inside his shell.
As with THE GREEDY PYTHON from a couple of days ago, Richard Buckley's rhyming couplets are a delight to read. Both books would be fun read alouds.
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