Reading Notes: The Giant Crab and Other Tales Part B


For this reading assignment, I read The Giant Crab and Other Tales retold by W.H.D. Rouse.
In the first story, Union is Strength, it tells a story about a man that catches birds. He sits by the water and when they get close, he throws a net over them. The birds come up with a plan to all work together and fly away with the net. They put the net on a bush and escape. This going on for some time and the man is sad that he is not catching any birds. But he realizes that if he waits, then the birds will start to bicker…and bicker they did! Soon, they were not working together at all and the man was able to take home his catch. I think this story is a short and simple example of why teamwork is so important. Obviously in this story it means life or death. However, there are all kinds of examples in real life that teamwork is the only way to accomplish a goal.


Find the link for this story here!

The next story that caught my interest was The Quail and the Falcon. This is a story about a quail that is unhappy with the food that he gets from the farmer tilling up his land. He ventures out to the forest to find food there and a falcon swoops down and snatches him up. He cries to the falcon to let him go and that if he had only stayed in his own land, this wouldn’t have happened. The falcon, being cocky, told the quail to go to his land and he would hunt him there. The quail was perched on a dirt clod and when the falcon came near, jumped off and hid. The falcon hit the dirt so hard it killed him. The quail realized that it was better to be happy with what he had then to wonder off somewhere else to find food. This is the classic, the-grass-is-always-greener-on-the-other-side story. This could be retold in a number of different ways.

Find the link for this story here!

Source: Wikimedia Commons
Title: Green Grass

Since the 2nd story that caught my attention was kind of like the grass isn't always greener on the other side, figured I'd put in a picture of grass......not super creative, I know, but when you do homework super late at night it makes more sense :)

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