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Nasreddin Hodja and the Smell of Soup Arabian Nights Ages 9-12

Nasreddin Hodja and the Smell of Soup

Nasreddin Hodja and the Smell of Soup: In the bustling streets of Aksehir, a small town in Anatolia, there lived a man of great wit and humble wisdom named

The Legend of the White Snake: Love Beyond Form and Fear Chinese Folk Tales Ages 9-12

The Legend of the White Snake: Love Beyond Form and Fear

The Legend of the White Snake: Love Beyond Form and Fear: In the misty valleys of ancient China, where dragons still whispered through bamboo groves and

The Monkey King’s Journey to the West: Pride and Redemption Chinese Folk Tales Ages 9-12

The Monkey King’s Journey to the West: Pride and Redemption

The Monkey King's Journey to the West: Pride and Redemption: Before time itself had been properly counted, when the heavens and earth were still learning to

The Butterfly Lovers: Transcendent Love Beyond Death Chinese Folk Tales Ages 9-12

The Butterfly Lovers: Transcendent Love Beyond Death

The Butterfly Lovers: Transcendent Love Beyond Death: In the southern regions of ancient China, where green mountains rose like sleeping dragons and rivers

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: A Love Across the Heavens Chinese Folk Tales Ages 9-12

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: A Love Across the Heavens

The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: A Love Across the Heavens: In the empire’s most remote valley, where mountains touched the clouds and the river ran clear as

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.

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.

The Crane Wife (Tsuru no Ongaeshi) 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

The Tongue-Cut Sparrow: A Japanese Folktale 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

Urashima Taro and the Dragon Palace 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