The Slug and the Snail
| By: | Oein DeBhairduin |
| Publisher: | Skein Press |
| Published: | January 1970 |
| Categories: | Children |
| Language: | English |
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Oein DeBhairduin’s tale, rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish Traveller community, is about identity and different ways of seeing the world. Two slugs travel happily together until a crow asks them where their home is. The younger brother, embarrassed, makes himself a shell, and calls himself snail. The older brother carries on as he is. At first, the brothers grow apart. But in time, they learn to respect each other’s way of life.
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