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The Boy Who Cried Wolf: 14 Detailed Scenes

Aesop’s fable

14 richly detailed scenes and 29 Spanish words, in Aesop’s original 1919 wording, for teens and adults.

Teens & adults

Colour the story. Learn the Spanish.

A bored shepherd boy cries “wolf” for fun, until the day the wolf (lobo) is real. Aesop’s fable is told here in its original 1919 words, with Spanish woven in page by page: 29 Spanish words in all, each with an easy pronunciation guide.

14 richly detailed story scenes to colour, plus the moral and bonus pages. Every picture has a blank back, so colours won’t show through. For teens and adults.

A page from inside

A detailed colouring page from The Boy Who Cried Wolf for teens and adults: a wolf leaps at the sheep at sunset
As the sun (sol) sets, a real wolf (lobo) springs out at the sheep.

Try it

A sample page

Then one evening as the sun (sol SOHL) was setting behind the bosque and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a lobo really did spring from the underbrush (maleza mah-LEH-thah) and fall upon the ovejas.

Vocabulary

Words you’ll learn

  • niñoboy · NEE-nyoh
  • ovejassheep · oh-BEH-hahs
  • vidalife · BEE-dah
  • aburridodull, boring · ah-boo-RREE-doh
  • perrodog · PEH-rroh
  • flautapipe, flute · FLOW-tah
  • bosqueforest · BOHS-keh
  • lobowolf · LOH-boh
  • rebañoflock · reh-BAH-nyoh
  • aldeanosvillagers · ahl-deh-AH-nohs
  • corrióran, he ran · koh-RYOH
  • pueblovillage · PWEH-bloh
  • trabajowork · trah-BAH-hoh
  • corrieronran, they ran · koh-RYEH-rohn
  • risalaughter · REE-sah
  • bromatrick, joke · BROH-mah
  • díasdays · DEE-ahs
  • otra vezagain · OH-trah BEHTH
  • ayudarto help · ah-yoo-DAHR
  • solsun · SOHL
  • malezaunderbrush · mah-LEH-thah
  • miedofear, terror · MYEH-doh
  • gritandoshouting · gree-TAHN-doh
  • gritocry, shout · GREE-toh
  • engañarto fool · ehn-gah-NYAHR
  • matókilled · mah-TOH
  • muchosmany · MOO-chohs
  • mentirososliars · mehn-tee-ROH-sohs
  • verdadtruth · behr-DAHD

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