The Fox and the Crow
A free A2-level English story for language learners, readable online in 7 languages, with an option to listen via the free Storyteller app.
A cunning fox showers a crow with compliments about her beautiful voice — all to get her to open her beak and drop her cheese.
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One bright morning a Crow sat in a tree with a fine piece of cheese in her beak.
A Fox, passing below, caught the scent of the cheese and looked up hungrily.
"Good morning, mistress Crow," he cried. "How well you look today! How glossy your feathers, how bright your eye. I am sure your voice must be sweeter than that of any other bird. Let me hear just one song, and I shall greet you as the Queen of Birds."
The Crow was so pleased by this flattery that she lifted up her head to sing. But the moment she opened her beak, the piece of cheese fell to the ground, and the Fox snapped it up at once.
"You have a voice, madam, I see," said the Fox. "What you lack is wit."
Do not trust those who flatter you.
