Moral Stories for Children
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2008
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This volume seems a member of a series that also includes Famous Stories from Jataka Tales and Famous Stories from Panchatantra. Here there are forty-six numbered stories on 112 pages after an opening T of C. The dust-jacket is again glued to the covers, which here show a horse, peacock, and rabbit on the front and a wolf on the back. GGE and GA are on the respective flyleaves. Most stories come from the collections we call Aesopic, though there is no reference to Aesop. Thus FS, FG, and CP are three of the first four fables told and pictured here. Bad Company (20) reverses the usual fable as this farmer releases the pigeon that is feeding with the crows on his grain. The moral to GA is No pain; no gain (31). One story I cannot remember from Aesopic collections is Catching a Thief (46), in which a wise king distributes magic sticks of equal length to suspects, saying that the criminal's stick will increase by two centimeters. Of course the thief cuts his stick back two centimeters! The Real Princess (55) is the story of the princess and the pea. False Friends Let Us Down (62) is Gay's story of the hare and her many friends. The Gainful Agreement (81) is the old story in which a gnome and a farmer agree to share halves of the produce. The farmer outwits him by planting potatoes and taking the lower half; surprisingly, the gnome then gives up and runs away! Several of the last stories delve into further magic, including genies and pearl-making birds. Each story gets several colored pictures in Shanti's simple but lively style. For sheer visual delight, I enjoy the picture on 100 of the tree admonishing the boys who are enjoying its shade but calling the tree useless.
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10035 (Access ID)