Bedtime Stories: Fables
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Good sound effects behind six stories so elaborated that they may no longer be fables. "Skywind" features the task of separating rice from sand. "Stone Soup" is, as always, a delight. "Kantchil and the Deep Hole" is about a very small deer in Indonesia. Kantchil falls into the deep hole and reads from a "magic" leaf that (1) the world ends today, (2) only those in the deep hole will be saved, and (3) anyone who sneezes must be thrown out of the hole. "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" is about a boy forgetting his magic yam and stealing it back from the animals. His mother and other clothes-dyeing women ward off the leopard with dye-covered sticks. "The Stone Cutter" wishes he were something stronger: the sun, a cloud... "The Little White Bone" finds the animals at the dawn of the world arguing over who should be the big chief. An old man produces the bone and asks which hand it is in. A little mouse wins the game and makes people the guardians of the earth our mother. There is "Go to Sleep" music at the beginning and end of each side.