Ages 6-8
Engaging adventure stories with clever heroes. Great for early readers and classroom use.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Judgment Of Baboon
A mouse tears the tailor's cloak, and when every creature blames the next, Baboon the judge turns the chain of excuses into a chain of punishment - a Khoikhoi tale from Namaqualand explaining why the cat hunts the mouse and the baboon walks on all fours.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Hunt Of Lion And Jackal
A Khoikhoi trickster tale from the Cape of Good Hope: the jackal cheats his hunting partner the lion out of an eland's fat with a false blood-trail, talks his way out of being caught, and escapes scot-free with his family.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Lion Who Thought Himself Wiser Than His Mother
A Khoikhoi animal fable from the Cape of southern Africa, recorded in James A. Honey's South-African Folk-Tales (1910): a proud young lion ignores his mother's threefold warning about Man, his white dogs and his pinching weapons — and dies in the very ambush he set at Aroxaams.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Elephant and Tortoise
A southern African Bushman tale: proud Elephant quarrels with Rain, claims the last water of a drought-stricken plain, and is undone by the patient wit of Tortoise.
African Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Jackal And Monkey
A captive jackal escapes a Cape farmer's wip snare by tricking a gloating monkey into taking his place - a dark South African trickster tale from the Khoikhoi jackal cycle, retold from James A. Honey's South-African Folk-Tales (1910).
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
Whom The King Honours
Whom The King Honours: Kings and rulers throughout history have understood that true power rests not merely on laws and force, but on the hearts and loyalty of
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Wild-Cat Woman
The Wild-Cat Woman: [Kim Su-ik was a native of Seoul who matriculated in 1624 and graduated in 1630. In 1636, when the King made his escape to Nam-han from the
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Visit Of The Man Of God
The Visit Of The Man Of God: In the thirty-third year of Mal-yok of the Mings (A.D. 1605), being the year Eulsa of the reign of Son-jo, in the seventh moon, a
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Soldier Of Kang-Wha
The Soldier Of Kang-Wha: [The East says that the air is full of invisible constituents that, once taken in hand and controlled, will take on various forms of
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Resourceful Wife
The Resourceful Wife: In the last year of Yon-san terrible evils were abroad among the people. Such wickedness as the world had never seen before was ’s quick
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Renowned Maing
The Renowned Maing: Minister of State Maing Sa-song once upon a time, dressed in plain clothes, started south on a long journey. On the way he was overtaken by
Korean Folk Tales
Ages 6-8
The Propitious Magpie
The Propitious Magpie: People say that when the magpie builds its nest directly south of a home that the master of the house will be promoted in office.