Author : Hugh Lupton
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 2019-04
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9781782853978
A collection of seven tales from around the world featuring remarkable animals and extraordinary people reminding us of how vast and mysterious the world is and how our lives can be transformed in the most unexpected circumstances.
Author : Patrick Fischmann
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0316270717
An illustrated keepsake collection of old-world Jewish tales of faith and morality. Beautifully packaged with a cloth case, foil stamping, a ribbon book marker, and lush full-color artwork on every page. Jewish Stories of Wisdom is the perfect antidote to our busy, modern lives. It serves as a daily companion that one can return to again and again for a much-needed moment of spiritual sustenance. The 34 stories in this uplifting collection can be read in solitude or shared with others. Among them are "The Poet and the Pirate," "The Language of the Kings," "The Laughter of the Light," "The True Beauty," and many others. Patrick Fischmann is a writer whose work is to gather stories from around the world for a multicultural and spiritual awakening. He is the author of dozens of titles including several in the Contes des Sages series published by Editions du Seuil in France. He is a storyteller, singer, and multi-instrument songwriter. He lives in France.
Author : Heather Forest
Publisher : august house
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780874834796
A collection of traditional stories from around the world, reflecting the cumulative wisdom of Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, African, and Native American cultures.
Author : Christopher Baretto
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9354222668
A kingdom's choicest fools gather at court, a young man makes a fortune from a dead mouse, a barber helps measure the earth with bullock carts and other such incredible tales of wit and wisdom. A delightful collection of stories of the witty Birbal from Akbar's court, Tenali Raman from Krishnadeva Raya's Vijaynagar Empire and Gopal Bhand from Raja Krishna Chandra's court in Bengal and many more! Adapted from the original AMAR CHITRA KATHA comics into a Chapter Book for the first time!
Author : Jan-Philipp Sendker
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1590519655
From the author of the internationally bestselling The Art of Hearing Heartbeats comes this charming collection of folktales that offer a window into Burma’s fascinating history and culture. Since 1995 Jan-Philipp Sendker has visited Myanmar (Burma) dozens of times, and while doing research for his novels The Art of Hearing Heartbeats and A Well-Tempered Heart, he encountered numerous folktales and fables. These moving stories speak to the rich mythology of the diverse peoples of Burma, the spirituality of humankind, and the profound social impact of Buddhist thought. Some are so strange he couldn’t classify them or identify a familiar moral, while others reminded him of the fairy tales of his childhood, except that here monkeys, tigers, elephants, and crocodiles inhabited the fantastic lands instead of hedgehogs, donkeys, or geese. Their morals resemble those of the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen, illustrating how all cultures draw on a universal wisdom to create their myths. The Long Path to Wisdom’s evocative stories run the gamut of human emotions, from the familiar to the shocking, and are sure to delight fans of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats as well as those newly discovering the magic of Sendker’s incandescent writing.
Author : Debra Kaatz
Publisher :
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Acupuncture
ISBN : 9780954916619
Author : Mark W. McGinnis
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2004-11-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0834826011
Around the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles—from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride, foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these stories with people, they cast the animals of their immediate environment in the leading roles—which may have given the tales a universal appeal that helped them travel around the world, surfacing in the Middle East as Aesop's fables and in various other guises throughout East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia, and Europe. Author and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over forty of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact. Each story is accompanied with a beautifully rendered full-color painting, making this an equally attractive book for children and adults, whether Buddhist or not, who love fine stories about their fellow wise (and foolish) creatures.
Author : Adwoa Badoe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2008-12
Category : Picture books for children
ISBN : 9780888998699
A collection of ten stories about the trickster spider god, Ananse. Sometimes things go Ananse's way and other times he makes a fool of himself and is ashamed-but never for very long. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Author : Wilton Sankawulo
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Author : David Self
Publisher : Lion Children's
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2009-02-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780825478512
Each of these stories focuses on some of the perennial problems that face humankind and on how they can be resolved wisely. Drawn from a variety of different cultures around the world, this book offers a glimpse of people from every background and how we can learn from one another.
