The Animal Tales Collection – Vol. 2


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This book is based on principles of positive psychology (e.g., virtues and character strengths) and linguistics (e.g., seven types of semantics and inferential linguistics). With these foundations, the authors have created a scientifically structured framework for children's literature. Give free rein to the imagination of your children, grandchildren, nephews, godchildren and other children, including the one that still lives inside you! Immerse yourself in a world of adventure, kindness, love, and valuable life lessons with this enchanting collection of 10 tales. It’s the perfect book to create positive moments at bedtime or any other time of the day! Guided by the positive characteristics of animals, each tale is a delightful journey that encourages the expression of virtues and positive character strengths, as well as creativity and humanity! With their colorful illustrations and enchanting tales, this book will also captivate adults and encourage them to express the best of the child that still lives within them! Let yourself be enchanted!




The Lion Storyteller Book of Animal Tales


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All the entertaining stories from the bestselling Storyteller Book of Animal Tales in a new format with warm and witty illustrations.




A World Full of Animal Stories


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This beautiful book of stories takes readers on a journey around the world with 50 best-loved tales, featuring creatures big and small. Prepare for a story time like no other as you delve into this beautifully-illustrated collection of classic stories featuring tales about your favourite animals from every corner of the globe. This anthology of animal stories brings together the most loved animal-themed fables, myths and legends including The Three Little Pigs, The Ugly Duckling, Why the Swallow's Tail is Forked and the story of Ananse and the Python. Lively retellings from best-selling author Angela McAllister are brought to life with sumptuous illustrations from Romanian-born illustrator, Aitch, in this treasury to treasure for a lifetime. For story lovers young and old this is the perfect anthology for all the family and animal lovers everywhere.







Native American Animal Stories


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The Papago Indians of the American Southwest say butterflies were created to gladden the hearts of children and chase away thoughts of aging and death. How the Butterflies Came to Be is one of twenty-four Native American tales included in Native American Animal Stories. The stories, coming from Mohawk, Hopi, Yaqui, Haida and other cultures, demonstrate the power of animals in Native American traditions.Parents, teachers and children will delight in lovingly told stories about "our relations, the animals." The stories come to life through magical illustrations by Mohawk artists John Kahionhes Fadden and David Fadden."The stories in this book present some of the basic perspectives that Native North American parents, aunts and uncles use to teach the young. They are phrased in terms that modern youngsters can understand and appreciate ... They enable us to understand that while birds and animals appear to be similar in thought processes to humans, that is simply the way we represent them in our stories. But other creatures do have thought processes, emotions, personal relationships...We must carefully ccord these other creatures the respect that they deserve and the right to live




Animal Tales Of The Native American Indians Vol. 2


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The stories of Native American Indians have always possessed some greater meaning. They are often based in nature or about animals. And even though the tribes may vary in location or beliefs, deep within you will find a common thread. Respect for nature can be heard in stories from tribes from Canada to Florida. The stories included in this book show Native American storytelling at its best. Included in the second volume of Animal Tales are the stories: Two Fawns and a Rabbit, The Origins of the Buffalo Dance, The Legend of the Bear Family, Iktomi and the Ducks, The End of The First World, Mistakes of Old Man, Oktomi’s Blanket, Iktomi and the Muskrat, They That Chase After the Bear, Iktomi and the Coyote, Beaver Medicine, Iktomi and the Fawn, Adventures of Coyote (A Cougar Tale), The Tree Bound, Shooting of the Red Eagle, How the Crow came to be Black, The Creation of the World, How Dogs Came to the Indians, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, The Toad and the Boy, The Hungry Fox and the Boastful Suitor, any many more.




Lost Tales Of The Native American Indians Vol. 2


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Native American Mythology began long before the European settlers arrived on North American soil. Contrary to popular beliefs, there is more to Native American Folklore than stories of buffalo hunts, teepee living and animal stories. Hundreds of tribes throughout North American created a huge mythological system that has rivaled that of the Greeks. Many of these tales have been lost, or are often hard to find. This collection represents a history that should be remembered. Included in this anthology are a group of collected works from the well-known, to the often-forgotten tribes. Native Americans are a proud people, with a rich heritage. They have recorded a huge amount of their history through storytelling. They were the masters of the North American plains and prairies. In these stories you will relive their history and the lives of one of North America’s First People. Among the stories included in this collection are: The Unseen Helpers, The Maiden Who Became A Bear, The Origin Of Death, Hummingbird Has Food, The Beaver Medicine, Salt Woman Is Refused Food. Heluta Plants The Deer, The Son Of The Sun, The Two Gods And The Two Maidens, Arrow Youth, Arrow Boy Triumphs Over His Mockers, Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape From The Cherokee, Corncob Boy, The Buffalo Rock, The Wife Who Was Cast Out By Her Husband, The Mother Who Mourned For Her Daughter, When The Coyote Married The Maiden, The Orphan And The Origin Of Corn, The Hunter And His Dogs, The Task Of Rabbit, Hemp-carrier, The Origin Of Tobacco, The Water People, Origin Of The Alabama Indians, The Swinging Grapevines, The Monster Demon, Big Man-Eater And The Persimmon Tree, The Men Who Went To The Sky, Adventures With Supernatural Beings, The Man And The Ghost, The Seneca Peacemakers, The Faithful Lovers, The Rabbit And The Bear With Flint Body, Story Of The Lost Wife, Legend Of Standing Rock, Story Of The Peace Pipe, The Shawano Wars, The False Warriors Of Chilhowee, The Dog And The Stick, The War Medicine, and many more.




Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2


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Folktales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from Ashkenasic culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the second volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives at The University of Haifa, Israel (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Ashkenasic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition




Animal Tales from the Caribbean


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Traditional stories from the northern Colombian coast, in both English and Spanish. These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the funerary ritual that includes other aesthetic and expressive practices such as jokes, song games, board games, and prayer. In this volume these stories are situated within their performance contexts and represent a highly ritualized corpus of oral knowledge that for centuries has been preserved and cultivated by African-descendant populations in the Americas. Ethnomusicologist George List collected these tales throughout his decades-long fieldwork among the rural costeños, a chiefly African-descendent population, in the mid-twentieth century and, with the help of a research team, transcribed and translated them into English before his death in 2008. In this volume, John Holmes McDowell and Juan Sebastián Rojas E. have worked to bring this previously unpublished manuscript to light, providing commentary on the transcriptions and translations, additional cultural context through a new introduction, and further typological and cultural analysis by Hasan M. El-Shamy. Supplementing the transcribed and translated texts are links to the original Spanish recordings of the stories, allowing readers to follow along and experience the traditional telling of the tales for themselves.




The Animal Story Book


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A collection of short stories, anecdotes, fables, and folktales involving animals from various authors and traditions.