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The Hare and the Tortoise
By Aesop's FablesAges 3-5About 5 minutes
A speedy hare and a patient tortoise have a friendly race in a cheerful forest meadow, showing the importance of perseverance.
How it begins
The cheeriest animal in the daisy meadow was Pamuk, a rabbit with snowy white fur. Pamuk would hop, hop, hop, reaching the other end of the meadow in just a second. His friend Tonton the tortoise walked at a gentle pace, admiring all the lovely things around him.
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Free in the app and using no talk minutes: a picture book of 25 pages, ten short silent scenes, and a narrator you can change.
A public-domain classic, read by Podoyo in English, German, Turkish, Spanish, French and Portuguese.
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