Ages 6-8
Engaging adventure stories with clever heroes. Great for early readers and classroom use.
Japanese Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Crane Wife (Tsuru no Ongaeshi)
The Crane Wife (Tsuru no Ongaeshi): In a small mountain village, where winter snow fell like blessings from heaven and spring brought cascades of pink
Japanese Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow: A Japanese Folktale
The Tongue-Cut Sparrow: A Japanese Folktale: In a village set among the gentle mountains of old Japan, there lived a kind-hearted old man named Takehiro and
Japanese Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Urashima Taro and the Dragon Palace
Urashima Taro and the Dragon Palace: In a village by the Seto Inland Sea, where fishing boats bobbed like lotus blossoms upon gentle waves, there lived a young
Japanese Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Princess (Kaguya-hime)
The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Princess (Kaguya-hime): In the time when Japan was young and still learning to speak its own language, there lived in a village
Japanese Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Momotaro: The Peach Boy
Momotaro: The Peach Boy: In the days when Japan was still finding its own voice, there lived in a small village nestled between rice paddies and gentle hills
Russian Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Vasilisa the Beautiful
Vasilisa the Beautiful: There once lived a merchant of great wealth and standing who had a daughter of such exceptional beauty that men traveled from distant
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Tink-Tinkje
The southern African folk tale 'Tink-Tinkje', the Cape form of the worldwide 'election of the king of birds' fable, in which the smallest bird wins the crown by cleverly riding unfelt on the soaring vulture's wing.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Tiger, The Ram, And The Jackal
A Panchatantra tale where a clever jackal's lies to tiger and ram destroy his own plans.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The White Man And Snake
The Khoikhoi fable of a man who frees a snake pinned under a stone, only for the snake to turn on him - until the clever Jackal restores her to the trap by asking her to prove her story. A Cape retelling of tale type ATU 155.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Lost Message
A southern African folk tale: the many kinds of ants fail to agree at their council, and the saving message of unity, entrusted to the slow Beetle, never arrives.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Lioness And The Ostrich
The Lioness and the Ostrich is a Khoikhoi folk tale of southern Africa from Bleek's Reynard the Fox in South Africa (1864) and Honey's South-African Folk-Tales (1910). A lioness accepts an ostrich as her equal, then lets her cubs' flattering scorn break that bond - and dies of it.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Lion, The Jackal, And The Man
The Khoikhoi folk tale of a boastful lion whom a clever jackal humbles by leading him to meet a man — and the man, armed with dogs, fire and steel, proves the strongest creature of all.