Folk Tales & Fables

The Snake and the Frogs (Marathi-English) $12.95

The old snake is punished - frogs will now ride on him. The frogs jump for joy - but they had better watch out! An unusual retelling, which swings sympathy in favour of the snake. Stunning pictures are based on wooden folk...

Four Friends (Marathi-English) $13.95

Big Hunter catches poor Deer in a net. Can Deer's friends help him escape? A well-loved fable about friendship and resourcefulness, simply told. The illustrations have the strong lines, vivid colours and animation of...

The Snake and the Frogs (Kannada-English) $12.95

The old snake is punished - frogs will now ride on him. The frogs jump for joy - but they had better watch out! An unusual retelling, which swings sympathy in favour of the snake. Stunning pictures are based on wooden folk...

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...

Four Friends (Kannada-English) $12.95

Big Hunter catches poor Deer in a net. Can Deer's friends help him escape? A well-loved fable about friendship and resourcefulness, simply told. The illustrations have the strong lines, vivid colours and animation of...

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Hebrew-English) $22.95

The three billy goats need to cross the bridge to get to the fresh, green grass. But under the bridge lives a fierce and hungry Troll. The first goat tells the Troll to wait for his brother who is much bigger than him. The...

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Yiddish-English) $22.95

"Stop Goldilocks, go back home. Woods aren't safe for a child all alone!" But Goldilocks doesn't listen to the warning. And so begins her adventure! She walks through the woods until she comes to the bears' house and sees...

Hansel & Gretel (Kurdish-English) $22.95

At a time of a great and terrible famine, Hansel and Gretel are abandoned in the woods by their parents. Lost and hungry, they find a magical house made of sweets and cakes. But when they take their first bite a strange...

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Latvian-English) $20.95

The three billy goats need to cross the bridge to get to the fresh, green grass. But under the bridge lives a fierce and hungry Troll. The first goat tells the Troll to wait for his brother who is much bigger than him. The...

The Wild Washerwomen (Punjabi-English) $22.95

Meet the washerwomen: Dottie, Lottie, Molly, Dolly, Winnie, Minnie, and Ernestine. They work from dusk till dawn scrubbing and soaping but their mound of grubby hankies and grimy nightshirts grows bigger by the day. When...

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Yiddish-English) $20.95

The three billy goats need to cross the bridge to get to the fresh, green grass. But under the bridge lives a fierce and hungry Troll. The first goat tells the Troll to wait for his brother who is much bigger than him. The...

The Dragon's Tears (Bengali-English) $23.95

This moving folk story tells how the twenty four lakes of the River Min came to be called the Dragon-Æs Tears. When Chin Wah releases a golden fish he is rewarded with the gift of a magic pearl. But this is when his...

The Pied Piper (Romanian-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.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Pashto-English) $23.95

"Stop Goldilocks, go back home. Woods aren't safe for a child all alone!" But Goldilocks doesn't listen to the warning. And so begins her adventure! She walks through the woods until she comes to the bears' house and sees...

The Elves and the Shoemaker (Spanish-English) $23.95

Swish, swish! They sewed. Tap, Tap! They hammered in the nails. Their little fingers worked so fast that the shoemaker could hardly believe his eyes... who are the secret helpers that come in the night? Grimm's classic tale...

The Little Red Hen and The Grains of Wheat (Croatian-English) $22.95

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...

Goose Fables (Slovakian-English) $22.95

This book includes two well known fables in one book wittily retold by Shaun Chatto and gloriously illustrated by Jago. Aesop-???+-?-+s The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, set in a Europe of times gone by, explores...

The Rooster and the Sun (Marathi-English) $14.95

A farmer shouts at the sun becaue it is too hot to work in the field. The sun gets upset, goes away and refuses to return. Finally, a rooster tricks the sun to shine again -?? and every day from then on. This engaging tale...

Lion Fables (Chinese_simplified-English) $23.95

In Aesop's 'The Lion and the Mouse' Lion spares the life of the little mouse never thinking that one day the mouse might save his life. In the Tibetan fables 'The Hare's Revenge' Hare is fed up with the bullying Lion and...

Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Chinese_simplified-English) $23.95

"Stop Goldilocks, go back home. Woods aren't safe for a child all alone!" But Goldilocks doesn't listen to the warning. And so begins her adventure! She walks through the woods until she comes to the bears' house and sees...