The Slug and the Snail

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...