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Original title:

Wie schmeckt der Mond?

Text and illustrations copyright © Michael Grejniec, 1993

English translation copyright © Jon Brokenbrow, 2010

This edition © Kalandraka Editora, 2011

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First edition: October, 2010

Second edition: December, 2011

ISBN: 978-84-8464-746-1

LD: PO 490-2010

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A T A S T E O F T H E M O O N

For a long time, the animals had wanted

to find out what the moon tasted like.

Was it sweet or salty?

They only wanted to taste a little piece.

At night, they longingly gazed up at the sky.

They reached up and tried to catch it,

stretching their necks, their legs and their arms.

But however hard they tried,

not even the biggest animal

could reach it.

One day, the little tortoise

decided to climb up the highest mountain

so she could touch the moon.

From up there, the moon was closer;

but the tortoise couldn’t reach it.

And so she called the elephant.