# Tortoise — Just So Stories character guide

> Tortoise in Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Slow-and-Solid Tortoise, a Tortoise, the Tortoise

**First appearance:** 0006-the-beginning-of-the-armadillos

## Who they are

A slow tortoise who becomes an armadillo with the hedgehog.

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