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The Ant and the Cricket
(Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing, 2018)
This is a transformation of the usual GA fable. Several crickets are involved; in fact they play in a band, though the text says that some of them snoozed. Somehow the story narrows down to one cricket. "The ants were ...
The Frog Desires a Guardian
(Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing, 2018)
This version specifies two things in its telling of the standard FK fable. First, the urge to ask comes twice from their boredom. Secondly, what they ask for is not, as usually, a king but rather a "guardian." That is ...
The House on the Tree
(Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing, 2018)
Here is an anomaly. There is already a booklet in this collection with this title and with identical interior art work and texts. In fact the other five booklet cover illustrations pictured on the back cover of this ...
A gardener son and a Potter daughter
(Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing, 2018)
This traditional fable is usually told of a father who has raised two daughters. One daughter marries a farmer and the other a potter. Here two grandparents have a farmer son and a potter daughter and they visit them. ...
Pine and Thorny Bush
(Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing, 2018)
This is a classic Aesopic fable. The tall pine insults the thorny bush as useless by contrast with the pine's nobility. Two episodes challenge that view. A lion is chasing a rabbit, and the thorny bush invites the rabbit ...
Young Man and Ox
(Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing, 2018)
This story centers around a young man and the ox he raised. This ox suggests that the young man bet the local millionaire a huge sum of money that he, the ox, could pull 50 wagons of rice. When the day for the performance ...
Crab and Heron
(Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing, 2018)
This Panchatantra tale includes some variants here. There is no natural provocation or even a reported one. The wily heron invites transport to an even better place to live, at a waterfall. He carries individuals then ...
Two Brother Parrots
(Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing, 2018)
This tale is new to me. Brother parrots become separated in a storm. One lands in a village of "saints" while the other falls in with a robber and becomes his spy to discover prey. The latter notices a solitary traveler ...
A Cat and A Fox
(Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing, 2018)
This story presents the traditional story of the cat and the fox with some changes. The cat comes from the city and meets the fox as they walk through the jungle. The fox boasts that no one in this jungle can harm him. ...
Greedy Crow
(Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing, 2018)
This story is new to me. A millionaire hangs a basket outside his kitchen window for a friendly pigeon. A greedy crow befriends this pigeon, and the millionaire hangs a basket for him too. They forage together, but the ...