TY - BOOK AU - Giles, Jenny AU - Reynolds, Pat TI - The hare and the tortoise / T2 - PM Traditional Tales and Plays SN - 9789814281225 AV - PZ7 U1 - 398.2 PY - 1998/// CY - Victoria : PB - Cengage Learning, KW - Fables KW - Fiction KW - Aesop N1 - M ; 570 ; Lexile ; M ; Raz-Plus N2 - Aesop was born in Thrace but was taken as a slave to the island of Samos in the Adriatic in the 6th century BC. Small Greek tortoises would have lived there - they are half the size of hares. Fables make pertinent comments on human behavioiur and the moral of this one is timeless - 'Steady effort brings rewards.' Set in southern Europe at anytime ER -