The Slug and the Snail by de Bharduin, Oein

The Slug and the Snail

An USBBY Outstanding International Book 2025 An illustrated own-voices fable about self-acceptance and pride from a member...
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Author: Oein de Bharduin
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The Slug and the Snail by de Bharduin, Oein

The Slug and the Snail

$30.78

The Slug and the Snail

$30.78
Author: Oein de Bharduin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

An USBBY Outstanding International Book 2025

An illustrated own-voices fable about self-acceptance and pride from a member of the Irish Traveller nomadic ethnic minority

Drawn from the Irish Traveller oral storytelling tradition, DeBhairduin's tale is a gentle allegory about difference, self-acceptance and different ways of seeing the world.

Two slugs travel happily together as brothers, until they meet a crow who shows them that they have no home. Ashamed, one of the slugs decides to make himself a home, and calls himself snail.

The brothers grow apart and become suspicious of each other. The slug with no shell-house feels ashamed until he learns to see that the very road he travels is his home, and so he shall never be homeless.

The happy slug no longer sees himself through the judging eyes of others, but proudly asserts his place in the world and the two brothers travel happily together once more.



Author: Oein de Bharduin
Publisher: Little Island Books
Published: 03/05/2024
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781915071071
Audience: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/04/2023
Foreword 02/13/2024

About the Author

Oein DeBhairduin is a creative soul with a passion for poetry, folk herbalism and preserving the beauty of Traveller tales, sayings, retellings and historic exchanges. His debut collection of Traveller folktales, Why the Moon Travels (Skein Press, 2020) won both the Judges' Special Prize and the Éilís Dillon Prize at the 2021 Children's Books Ireland awards.


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