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The Tale of Shim Cheong: Filial Devotion and the Dragon King’s Blessing Korean Folk Tales Ages 6-8

The Tale of Shim Cheong: Filial Devotion and the Dragon King’s Blessing

The Tale of Shim Cheong: Filial Devotion and the Dragon King's Bless: The Tale of Shim Cheong: A Korean Folk Story of Love and Sacrifice In the depths of

The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden: A Love Between Two Worlds Korean Folk Tales Ages 6-8

The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden: A Love Between Two Worlds

The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden: A Love Between Two Worlds: The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden: When Love Transcends the Stars High in the mountains

The Glass Mountain: A Polish Tale of Cleverness Over Strength Celtic Folk Tales Ages 3-5

The Glass Mountain: A Polish Tale of Cleverness Over Strength

The Glass Mountain: A Polish Tale of Cleverness Over Strength: In a distant kingdom of Poland, there stood a mountain unlike any other in all the world.

The Three Golden Hairs of Grandfather Know-All: A Czech Tale of Wit and Destiny Celtic Folk Tales Ages 3-5

The Three Golden Hairs of Grandfather Know-All: A Czech Tale of Wit and Destiny

The Three Golden Hairs of Grandfather Know-All: A Czech Tale of Wit: In the Kingdom of Bohemia, there lived a nobleman who was obsessed with destiny. He had

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Baba Dochia and the Coming of Spring: A Romanian Tale of Humility Celtic Folk Tales Ages 3-5

Baba Dochia and the Coming of Spring: A Romanian Tale of Humility

Baba Dochia and the Coming of Spring: A Romanian Tale of Humility: High in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, where snow fell thick and heavy for months on

The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A German Legend of Promises Broken Celtic Folk Tales Ages 3-5

The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A German Legend of Promises Broken

The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A German Legend of Promises Broken: In the prosperous German town of Hamelin, where merchant ships once sailed down the Weser River

The Selkie Wife: A Scottish Tale of Love and the Sea Celtic Folk Tales Ages 3-5

The Selkie Wife: A Scottish Tale of Love and the Sea

The Selkie Wife: A Scottish Tale of Love and the Sea: On the rocky shores of Scotland, where the North Sea crashes against ancient cliffs, there lived a

The Tortoise and the Baboon African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

The Tortoise and the Baboon

The African Bantu fable of a baboon who invites a tortoise to a feast hung out of reach in a tree, and the tortoise's patient revenge laid across a stretch of fire-blackened ground - the reciprocal-inhospitality story, international tale type ATU 60.

Abiyoyo: The Monster and the Boy African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Abiyoyo: The Monster and the Boy

Abiyoyo: The Monster and the Boy: In a small South African village nestled at the edge of the high veld, where grasslands stretched endlessly toward a horizon

The Lion’s Whisker African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

The Lion’s Whisker

An Amhara wisdom tale from Ethiopia: a young stepmother, desperate to win her grieving stepson's love, is sent by a wise hakim to pluck a whisker from a living lion - and learns that patience, not magic, is the cure.

Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky

An Efik pourquoi tale from southern Nigeria: the Sun and his wife the Moon welcome their friend the Water too well, are flooded out of the great house they built, and are driven up to live in the sky forever.

Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom African Folk Tales Ages 6-8

Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom

The Akan (Ashanti) trickster tale of how Kwaku Anansi the spider tried to hoard all the wisdom of the world in one clay pot - and how his own small son taught him the lesson that scattered wisdom across the whole earth.

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