Uncover The White Elephant And Other Tales From India Constructed By Georgene Faulkner Released As Audio Books

stories, but simplifies English used, School read aloud, Indian folk tales with beautiful illustrations, A few of them we read twice because we enjoyed them so much, The Alligator and the Jackal and the Brahman and the Lion were favorites, A selection of Indian fairy tales for children, Beautiful illustrations. Can be found for free at Project Gutenberg here:

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Some of the stories were a bit violent like some of Grimm's fairy tales, so you might want to read them first before reading them to young children.
Indian folk tales as old as the Ganges,

Well, maybe not that old, but as the compiler points out in her introduction 'some have come down to us from the early days of Buddha, and were taken from a book, called the Jataka Tales.
' That's theth century BC,

As she also points out, you would certainly have come across some of these before in Westernised versions, The title story is an Indian equivalent of Androcles and the lion, 'The Bear's Bad Bargain' contains shades of Goldilocks and the Three Bears,

'The Kingdom of Mouseland' was my favourite, When

the Woodcutter Chief steals the Mouse King's camel and refuses to give it back the mice have their revenge courtesy of some industrious gnawing and a pinch of snuff.


The illustrations are wonderful, This treasury of fantastic folklore presents eleven traditional Indian stories, beautifully illustrated in full color, Many of the timeless tales of wise and foolish creatures offer intriguing regional variations on Aesop's fables: "The White Elephant" resembles "Androcles and the Lion," "The Timid Little Rabbit" recalls "Chicken Little," and "The Grain of Corn" compares to "The Old Woman and the Pig.
" The wily little Jackal makes occasional appearances, using his wits to overcome more powerful animals in "The Alligator and the Jackal" and "Singh Rajah and the Cunning Little Jackals.
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"The Kingdom of Mouseland," "The Bold Blackbird," and "The Kids and the Tiger" also recount triumphs of weak but cunning individuals over strong and brutish opponents, A conniving old woman and her greedy husband deceive one of their animal neighbors in "The Bear's Bad Bargain" a humble laundryman becomes a hero in spite of himself in "The Man Who Rode a Tiger" and Jackal returns to rescue a nobleman whose good intentions go astray in "The Brahmin and the Tiger.
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