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When he finally tries to get their attention, he accidentally lets go and falls hard. The turtle hides in a pond, sleeps through winter, and wakes in spring proud of the cracked shell, shaping the familiar pattern seen on every turtle thereafter.","How Turtle Cracked His Shell  \nEnglish Story Book  \n1  \nOne autumn day, Turtle was talking with the birds. They said,“Winter is coming. Soon it’s going to be very cold here. We’re getting ready to fly south where it is warm.”  \n2  \n“Can I come with you?”asked Turtle.  \nAt first, the birds said,“No!”  \nTurtle pleaded,“There must be some way I can go with you!”  \nFinally, the birds agreed.  \n“Use your mouth to hold on tightly to this stick,” the birds explained.  \nTurtle did just that.  \nThen the two big birds grabbed the ends of the stick. Soon they were all high in the sky, including Turtle.  \n3  \n4  \nTurtle had never been so high off the ground before. He could look down and see how small everything looked. He wondered how far they had come, and how far they had to go.  \n5  \nTurtle tried to get the birds’ attention. He rolled his eyes at them, but they did not notice. He waved his legs too. Frustrated, Turtle opened his mouth to speak.  \nAt that moment, he let go of the stick and began to fall! He fell down from the sky and hit the ground hard.  \n6  \nTurtle’s body ached. He ached so much he did not notice that his shell had cracked all over. He crawled into a pond and swam down to the bottom.  \nThere he dug a hole in the mud and slept all winter long.  \n7  \nIn the spring, Turtle woke up. He was very proud of the cracks on his shell.  \nEver since then, every turtle’s shell looks like it has cracks all over it.  \nHow Turtle Cracked His Shell  \nby Joseph Bruchac Retold by Rosie McCormick Illustrated by Gail McIntosh and Barbara Gibson English narration by Mia Fothergill  \neBook layout and audio editing by SIL-Education for Life [www.mytalkingbooks.org](www.mytalkingbooks.org)  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2021, SIL-PNG Education for Life  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)  \nYou may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nThis work is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 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