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9780874834796

Wisdom Tales from Around the World

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  • ISBN13:

    9780874834796

  • ISBN10:

    0874834791

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-12-15
  • Publisher: August House

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This collection of fifty metaphorical folktales and parables is selected with a global perspective and retold by a professional storyteller. Included are tales from diverse story traditions such as Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, African, and Native American. Comprised of ancient plots both poignant and comical, this anthology contains simple truths, common sense, and the promise that we can benefit from past generations'experience. Wisdom tales offer useful insights into life's ....

Author Biography

Heather Forest Bio:

Heather Forest's unique minstrel style of telling stories blends her original music, folk guitar, poetry, and prose along with song and the spoken word to give her stories an uncommon warmth and charm. She has toured widely performing her repertoire of world folktales for the past thirty years to theatres, major storytelling festivals, schools and conferences throughout the world. Heather's books have received many prestigious awards including the Children's Choice Award, Parent's Choice Award, CCBC Choices, ABC Best Books for Children, Best Children's Books of the Year, Book Sense Winter Children's Picks, and the National Parenting Publication Awards (NAPPA) among others.

Heather is currently working on her tenth book with August House, a collection of ancient and epic tales. Ms. Forest holds a Master's Degree in Storytelling and she is a recipient of the Circle of Excellence Award presented by the National Storytelling Network. Her many performance credits include The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., The National Storytelling Festival, The Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, Tales of Graz Festival in Austria, the Sidmouth International Festival in England and the Glistening Waters Storytelling Festival in New Zealand.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 9(4)
TALES FROM ANCIENT INDIA
13(16)
Jataka Tales
13(6)
The Talkative Turtle
13(2)
The Wise Master
15(2)
A Flock of Birds
17(2)
Tales from The Panchatantra
19(6)
The Lion Makers
19(2)
The Blue Jackal Who Showed His True Colors
21(2)
The Lion and the Rabbit
23(2)
The Blind Men and the Elephant
25(4)
TALES FROM CHINA Taoist Parables
29(10)
Blinded by Greed
29(1)
Lieh Tzu
The Stolen Ax
30(1)
Lieh Tzu
The Best Fit
31(1)
Han Fei
The Powerful Fighting Cock
32(1)
Chuang Tzu
Whose Dream Is This?
33(1)
Chuang Tzu
The Useless Tree
34(1)
Chuang Tzu
A Farmer's Horse Ran Off
35(4)
Lui An
ZEN STORIES FROM JAPAN
39(8)
A Monk with Heavy Thoughts
39(1)
The Wild Strawberry
40(1)
Empty-Cup Mind
41(1)
A Dispute in Sign Language
42(2)
Giving the Moon
44(3)
TALES FROM ANCIENT GREECE
47(10)
Aesop's Fables
47(3)
Antlers
47(1)
Everyone Agrees to Peace
48(1)
Mice in Council
49(1)
Tales of Mount Olympus
50(7)
Baucis and Philemon
50(3)
Echo and Narcissus
53(4)
TALES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST Sufi Stories of Mulla Nasrudin
57(10)
The Boatman
57(1)
The Smuggler
58(2)
Feeding His Clothes
60(2)
Looking for the Key
62(5)
TALES FROM THE JEWISH TRADITION
67(14)
Feathers (Eastern Europe--Hasidic)
67(3)
This Too Shall Pass (Ancient Israel--A King Solomon Legend)
70(3)
The Wooden Sword (Afghanistan)
73(8)
TALES FROM THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
81(10)
The Legend of St. Genesius
81(2)
Amazing Grace: The Story of John Newton (1725-1807)
83(4)
The Prodigal Son: A Parable from the New Testament
87(4)
TALES FROM AFRICA
91(10)
Fire, Water, Truth, and Falsehood (Northeast Africa--Ethiopia)
91(2)
The Red and Blue Coat (Central Africa--Congo)
93(2)
Tongue Meat (East-Central Africa--Swahili)
95(2)
Why Wisdom Is Everywhere (West Africa--Ashanti)
97(4)
TALES FROM ASIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
101(10)
The Parts of the House Argue (Philippines)
101(2)
The Tiger's Whisker (Korea)
103(3)
Little Lizard's Sorrow (Vietnam)
106(5)
TALES FROM EUROPE
111(14)
The Three Wishes (England)
111(3)
The Wooden Bowl (Germany)
114(3)
The Happy Man's Shirt (Italy)
117(3)
The Dancing Lass of Anglesey (Scotland)
120(5)
TALES FROM THE AMERICAS
125(12)
How War Was Ended (North American Arctic--Central Yup'ik Eskimo)
125(2)
How the Quetzal Got Its Red Breast (Central America--Maya)
127(2)
Old Dog and Coyote (Mexico--Otomi)
129(2)
Paca and Beetle (South America--Brazil)
131(2)
Gluscabi and the Magic Game Bag (North American Eastern Woodlands--Abenaki)
133(4)
PROVERBS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 137(2)
NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 139

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