The Foolish Tortoise
A tortoise abandons his shell to move faster but finds himself too scared to go anywhere.
Richard Buckley is a much-traveled English writer of both prose and poetry. He has lived in New York, Paris, and London, but his present home is in Cheltenham, England, where he has lived for the past thirty years, bringing up two sons with his wife (and muse) Elfie. His books for children include The Dutiful Penguin, The Foolish Tortoise (with Eric Carle), The Greedy Python (with Eric Carle), and The Bird Who Couldn’t Fly (with Alex Williams).
A tortoise abandons his shell to move faster but finds himself too scared to go anywhere.
A tortoise abandons his shell to move faster but finds himself too scared to go anywhere.
A greedy python swallows jungle animals, but they unite to escape his belly.
2
Authored
0
Illustrated
1
Collaborators
Picture books
2
Books published each year, stacked by book type.
The share of the catalog represented by each book type.
2
books
Every title in the Bookroo library, ordered from newest to oldest.
A tortoise abandons his shell to move faster but finds himself too scared to go anywhere.
A greedy python swallows jungle animals, but they unite to escape his belly.
Creative company
The authors and illustrators who share the credits across Richard Buckley's books.