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Why Dassie Has No Tail: An African Folktale
Paperback
Series: Tales by Moonlight - African Fables, Folk Tales & Myths, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 24 2022
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.09 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
An African fable - In this Xhosa fable read why the dassie or rock hyrax has no tail, but all the other animals do.
Let's Get Story Active!
* Imagine that the animals had chosen different tails from Lion.
* Draw a picture of any animal with a different type of tail, such as Giraffe with a Ostrich's tail or a Tortoise with a Monkey's tail.
- Be a word detective! Look closely at the story. Can you find: the names of four animals - five words that describe tails?
- Pretend that you are Dassie. Write a letter to the Lion asking for another chance to get a tail.
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