Tortoise and Hare’s Amazing Race, The

This book is a retelling of the fable, “The Tortoise and the Hare.” It’s about Hare and Tortoise racing. Hare keeps on taking all these side trips and naps. He could have won just by taking one nap, but he decided to keep doing all these other things. Hare was pretty foolish, because he kept saying he could take all these naps and other things and still win the race, so he got what he deserved by losing the race! He was also really braggy; he kept bragging about how great he was.

I like this book because it has really beautiful pictures and I like the moral, which is ‘slow and steady wins the race’, or that if you keep working toward your goal, you will reach it, but if you get distracted, you won’t get to it. The pictures of the animals are really detailed and realistic, but they are funny too, like there is a picture that shows the animals using a calculator and a measuring tape, or the Hare using his GPS to see how far he’d run. This is a fun retelling that everyone who likes the original fable will enjoy!