La Zorra Y Las Uvas/the Fox And the Grapes: Version De La Fabula De Esopo /a Retelling of Aesop's Fable (Read-It! Readers en Espanol)

by Mark White (Adapter), Aesop, Patricia Abello

Retells the fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Animals

24 pages, Library Binding

First published August 1, 2003

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Reviews

[Mubera Selimovic · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book and it's funny too! It is good for younger group of kids. The fox shouldn't give up on the grapes instead should try harder to get to it.

[Hope Garland]

In this retelling of Aesop's fable, a fox tries and tries to reach a cluster of delicious looking grapes but fails each time. In the end he gives up but tells himself that the grapes were probably sour to make himself feel better about his inability to get the grapes. I thought that the author did a good job of condensing the fable and making it readable for beginning readers. This story teaches children that sometimes when people fail, they pretend like they did not really want what they had been working for or they say something mean about it. This story would be helpful to prepare little kids for their encounters with this kind of response to failure. It can be confusing for kids when they see someone react like this after being unable to attain a goal because they may not understand why the person is acting unkind and bitter. This story helps explain to kids why someone may feel that way. I would recommend this book for young reader. It definitely teaches a useful life lesson.

[babyhippoface]

Very simple retelling of the Aesop fable of the fox and the grapes. There's enough details to understand the fox tries several times to get the grapes, then walks away discouraged, complaining that the grapes were probably sour anyway. The last page contains the moral of the story. If you were trying to introduce Aesop's fables to your classroom of lower elementary students and wanted them to read some on their own, this might be a good place for them to start, as some other versions of the story use more difficult language.

I read this with second grade, then read Margie Palatini's Lousy, Rotten, Stinkin' Grapes and had the kids compare and contrast the two versions of the old tale.