In a retelling of the Perrault fairy tale set in pre-colonial India, two stepsisters–Diribani and Tana–receive gifts from a goddess and each walks her own path to find her gifts purpose, discovering romance along the way.
Folktales and Fairytales
The Painted Wall And Other Strange Tales (Aesop Accolades (Awards))
Honor Book for the Society of School Librarians International’s Best Book Award – Language Arts, Grades K-6 Novels. Selected as one of four recipients of the 2004 Aesop Accolade. Selected by the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association as one of the PSLA YA Top Forty Fiction Titles 2003. At about the time the Grimm Brothers were gathering their famous collection of folk stories and fairy tales in Europe, in China a similar collection of almost five hundred stories had just been compiled by the scholar Pu Sing-ling. Drawing on oral and written sources, he called his collection of the strange and wondrous Strange Tales from a Studio of Leisure. The fruits of his life’s work become immensely popular with storytellers who performed the stories in teahouses, where rapt audiences would sit for half a day drinking tea and listening to tales of ghosts, fox fairies, and other wonders. Almost unknown in the West, the stories are given new life in this important work by the masterful Michael Bedard.
The Magic Ear
Here is delightful retelling of that ageless tale of goodness and kindness rewarded; …This will be a popular read-aloud for classrooms, and will have great appeal for those who still enjoy a “happily-ever-after”. — NAPRA ReView
The Fool and the Phoenix: A Tale of Old Japan
With the help of a mysterious maiden, a mute birdcatcher saves a village from the plundering of a sly bandit.
Why Ducks Sleep On One Leg
The Wise Washerman: A Folktale From Burma
When the king asks him to wash a gray elephant white, a clever washerman outwits his jealous neighbor and proves the value of hard work and intelligence.
Turandot
The Princess And The Beggar: A Korean Folktale (Scholastic Hardcover)
A sad princess finds happiness after marrying a beggar.
The Stone Lion
Two Tibetan brothers are rewarded appropriately by a stone lion, one for his generosity and one for his greed.