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After opening his mouth in frustration, Turtle lets go and falls, then crawls to a pond and sleeps through the winter as his shell cracks badly. In spring, Turtle wakes proud of the cracks, leading every turtle’s shell to resemble cracked markings thereafter.","English Traditional Story  \nA5-How Turtle Cracked His Shell  \nWritten by Joseph Bruchac Retold by Rosie McCormick Illustrated by Gail McIntosh and Barbara Gibson  \nBloom book layout by SIL-PNG Education for Life  \nThis book is also available as a 'Talking Book'. You can read and listen to it on your phone/tablet. Download 'Talking Books' [on ](on www.mytalkingbooks.org)[www.mytalkingbooks.org](on www.mytalkingbooks.org)  \nEnglish  \nPapua New Guinea  \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.”  \n| \u003Cbr> |\n| --- |\n| “Can I come with you?” asked Turtle. At first, the birds said,“No!” Turtle pleaded,“There must be some way I can go with you!” Finally, the birds agreed.\u003Cbr> |\n\n\n| \u003Cbr>“Use your mouth to hold on tightly to this stick,” the birds explained. Turtle did just that. |  |\n| --- | --- |\n|  |  |\n| Then the two big birds grabbed the ends of the stick. Soon they were all high in the sky including Turtle.\u003Cbr> |  |\n\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.  \nTurtle tried to get the birds’ attention. He rolled his eyes at them, but they did not notice. He waved his legs too.  \nFrustrated, Turtle opened his mouth to speak. At that moment he let go of the stick and began to fall! He fell down from the sky and hit the ground hard.  \n\n| \u003Cbr>Turtle’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. |\n| --- |\n|  |\n| There he dug a hole in the mud and slept all winter long.\u003Cbr> |\n\n\n| \u003Cbr>In the spring, Turtle woke up. He was very proud of the cracks on his shell. |\n| --- |\n|  |\n| Ever since then, every turtle’s shell looks like it has cracks all over it.\u003Cbr> |\n\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/)[ ](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)[You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)[ ](You 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 CoreKnowledge® Foundation made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This does not in any way imply that the Core Knowledge Foundation endorses this work.","cbCaipQNPIEU6InS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipQNPIEU6InS","pdf",4042709,11,"English","en",105,"# One Autumn Day\n## Joining the Birds\n## The Fall and Winter Sleep\n## Spring Awakening and the Shell’s Markings","[{\"question\":\"Why do the birds ask Turtle to stay behind at first?\",\"answer\":\"At first, the birds refuse Turtle’s request to come with them. 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