First Reading 4: How Tortoise Tricked the Birds

A beautifully illustrated, traditional African folktale, with a useful moral. A humorous and lively African folktale, specially adapted for children just beginning to read. With colour illustrations on every page, this is another addition to Usborne's hugely popular First Reading series. Find out what happens when trickster Tortoise joins the birds at the Great Feast in the sky, and the gobbles ALL of the food. Perhaps it's time for Tortoise to be tricked too? This Igbo folktale has been charmingly retold by Clifford Samuel, for children just beginning to read.