All Ages
Timeless stories the whole family can enjoy together. No age limit on great storytelling.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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