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Tom Tuatara cocked one beady eye,
peered at the skink, and let out a sigh.
'No one can beat you, is that what you think?
Are you really so confident, Sammy the Skink?'
A witty New Zealand retelling of The Tortoise and the Hare.
Wacko Kakapo
The Ugly Hatchling
Cindy and the Lost Jandal
The Little Blue Duck
Trev and the Kauri Tree
The Mayor's Flash New Clothes
The Three Little Lambs
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Review by: ooblar
Dated: 9th of July, 2009
Now this one had even me laughing along. Though the pace of the rhyhms kept changing, thus making it hard to 'flow' the words sometimes, it was a real hoot to follow along as Sammy got overconfident and blew the race.
I was especially tickled by the little touches in the artwork, Sammy drinking a can of 'Morning Dew', the owl reporter from 'Tree News', etc. A few other little 'subtle winks' to popular kids movies and stories, it was all great entertainment.
A brilliant Kiwi twist to a classic moralistic tale that warns us that getting on with the job will get it done, while getting all cocky will undoubtedly lead to our downfall eventually, even at the last second when we are certain of success.
All in all this was a great story, and like Cindy and the Lost Jandal it has been doing the rounds of the clan and I have only just got it back for a quick re-read and review. 
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