Bola and the Tower of Pebbles

Bola the armadillo starts a thousand things and never finishes any: a half-built tower, a half-dug burrow, everything half done. When he decides to stick with just one and build it pebble by pebble, he discovers the quiet joy of finishing.

Age: ages 4-6
Length: 5 pages
Languages: Español · English · Português · Français · Italiano · Deutsch
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What it’s about

Keeping at it
From the forest

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