Folk Tales & Fables

The Little Red Hen and The Grains of Wheat (Turkish-English) $23.95

Little Red Hen finds some grains of wheat but when she asks the cat, the dog and the goose to help her plant them, they are all too busy. When Little Red Hen has finally grown the wheat, harvested it, turned it into flour...

The Little Red Hen and The Grains of Wheat (Urdu-English) $23.95

Little Red Hen finds some grains of wheat but when she asks the cat, the dog and the goose to help her plant them, they are all too busy. When Little Red Hen has finally grown the wheat, harvested it, turned it into flour...

The Little Red Hen and The Grains of Wheat (Vietnamese-English) $23.95

Little Red Hen finds some grains of wheat but when she asks the cat, the dog and the goose to help her plant them, they are all too busy. When Little Red Hen has finally grown the wheat, harvested it, turned it into flour...

The Magic Brocade (Spanish-English) $24.00

No brocades are more lovely or lifelike than the ones the widow weaves to sell at the marketplace. One day she returns home with a marvelous painting of a fairy palace and her son Chen suggests that she weaves the image as a...

The Magic Pomegranate: A Jewish Folktale $8.95

The contest has begun! Three brothers travel to different countries to find the most unusual gift. The oldest brother finds a looking glass that shows him places far away. The middle brother buys a flying carpet. And the...

The Mermaid of Warsaw: And Other Tales from Poland $10.50

Enchanting, wicked and often very funny, Poland's folk tales are one of the great treasures of Central Europe. Crowned by the story of The Mermaid of Warsaw, the eight colourful tales in this collection include Skarbnik's...

The Mouse Bride: A Chinese Folktale (Hmong-English) $24.00

"Are you the strongest being in the world?" the old mouse leader asked the Sun, Cloud, Wind, and Wall. The mouse leader is searching for the mightiest husband for his daughter, someone strong enough to protect her and the...

The Mouse Bride: A Chinese Folktale (Spanish-English) $24.00

"Are you the strongest being in the world?" the old mouse leader asked the Sun, Cloud, Wind, and Wall. The mouse leader is searching for the mightiest husband for his daughter, someone strong enough to protect her and the...

The Mouse Bride: A Chinese Folktale (Vietnamese-English) $24.00

"Are you the strongest being in the world?" the old mouse leader asked the Sun, Cloud, Wind, and Wall. The mouse leader is searching for the mightiest husband for his daughter, someone strong enough to protect her and the...

The Musical Donkey (Bengali-English) $11.95

There was a donkey who felt so happy that he sang through the night in the cucumber field. The problem was that the cucumbers couldn't bear it. What did they do? Earthy illustrations in the patachitra style from Orissa...

The Musical Donkey (Gujarati-English) $13.95

There was a donkey who felt so happy that he sang through the night in the cucumber field. The problem was that the cucumbers couldn't bear it. What did they do? Earthy illustrations in the patachitra style from Orissa...

The Musical Donkey (Hindi-English) $12.95

There was a donkey who felt so happy that he sang through the night in the cucumber field. The problem was that the cucumbers couldn't bear it. What did they do? Earthy illustrations in the patachitra style from Orissa...

The Musical Donkey (Kannada-English) $12.95

There was a donkey who felt so happy that he sang through the night in the cucumber field. The problem was that the cucumbers couldn't bear it. What did they do? Earthy illustrations in the patachitra style from Orissa...

The Musical Donkey (Malayalam-English) $13.95

There was a donkey who felt so happy that he sang through the night in the cucumber field. The problem was that the cucumbers couldn't bear it. What did they do? Earthy illustrations in the patachitra style from Orissa...

The Musical Donkey (Marathi-English) $12.95

There was a donkey who felt so happy that he sang through the night in the cucumber field. The problem was that the cucumbers couldn't bear it. What did they do? Earthy illustrations in the patachitra style from Orissa...

The Musical Donkey (Tamil-English) $13.95

There was a donkey who felt so happy that he sang through the night in the cucumber field. The problem was that the cucumbers couldn't bear it. What did they do? Earthy illustrations in the patachitra style from Orissa...

The Painted Wall and Other Strange Tales $21.99

At about the time the Grimm Brothers were gathering their famous collection of folk stories and fairy tales in Europe, in China a similar collection of almost five hundred stories had just been compiled by the scholar Pu...

The Peach Boy $9.95

This is a new title in the fantastic "First Reading" series, part of the Usborne Young Reading Programme, based on a tale from Japanese folklore. It is aimed at children who are beginning to read. When Momotaro was found...

The Pied Piper (Albanian-English) $23.95

Rats! Big rats, small rats, young rats and old rats! Enter a mysterious stranger... This sensitive retelling of the famous Pied Piper legend raises many moral and social issues as well as inspiring drama and music.

The Pied Piper (Arabic-English) $23.95

Rats! Big rats, small rats, young rats and old rats! Enter a mysterious stranger... This sensitive retelling of the famous Pied Piper legend raises many moral and social issues as well as inspiring drama and music.