How Tortoise tricked the Birds

Description

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 then gobbles ALL of the food. Perhaps it's time for Tortoise to be tricked too?

Clifford Samuel is an Award Nominated Actor and writes for the stage and screen. He's of Nigerian heritage and has strong Igbo roots. His first introduction to literature in childhood was Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. One of the chapters includes a compelling re-telling of this fable. It left a lasting memory and inspired Clifford to write this story.