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Legends, myths and folktales : celebrate the stories that have moved the world for centuries

Material type: TextTextSeries: Britannica learning libraryPublisher: Chicago : Encylopaedia Britannica, [2003]Description: 63 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1593390378
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.21
Contents:
Myths and legends, folktales and fables : stories of wonders and everyday life
Atlas : the bearer of the world
Dragons : beasts of fire and mist
Who will marry Mousie? / an Asian folktale
Animal stories that teach / Aesop's fables
Europe
The country mouse and the town house / a European folktale
The Golem of Prague / a Jewish legend
King Arthur's knights of the round table / a British legend
Odysseus and the Cyclops / a Greek legend
The Trojan horse / a story from ancient Greece
Thor : the thunder God
The bear and the old man / a Russian folktale
Asia
Yeh-Shen / a Chinese Cinderella story
The stonecutter / a story from Japan
The tiger in the trap / a Korean folktale
The monkey and the string of pearls / a South Asian tale
The poor man and the flask of oil / from the Kalilah wa Dimnah
Moni Mekhala and Ream Eyso / a Cambodian myth
Australia
How kangaroo got his tail / an Australina tale
Africa
Ananse and the wisdon pot / a story from Ghana
The monkey court / a Nigerian folktale
Jackals gets away / a zulu story
The Americas
Rabbit throws away his sandal / a Mayan story
The tale of a lumberjack / Paul Bunyan
How crow brought daylight to the world / an Inuit tale
Coyote brings fire / a native American legend
Why possum's tail i bare / a Cherokee story
Raven and crow's potlatch / a fable of the Pacisfic Northwest
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Book Book Sta. Lucia Branch Children's Corner Children's Collection C 398.21 L511 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 105546d

Myths and legends, folktales and fables : stories of wonders and everyday life

Atlas : the bearer of the world

Dragons : beasts of fire and mist

Who will marry Mousie? / an Asian folktale

Animal stories that teach / Aesop's fables

Europe

The country mouse and the town house / a European folktale

The Golem of Prague / a Jewish legend

King Arthur's knights of the round table / a British legend

Odysseus and the Cyclops / a Greek legend

The Trojan horse / a story from ancient Greece

Thor : the thunder God

The bear and the old man / a Russian folktale

Asia

Yeh-Shen / a Chinese Cinderella story

The stonecutter / a story from Japan

The tiger in the trap / a Korean folktale

The monkey and the string of pearls / a South Asian tale

The poor man and the flask of oil / from the Kalilah wa Dimnah

Moni Mekhala and Ream Eyso / a Cambodian myth

Australia

How kangaroo got his tail / an Australina tale

Africa

Ananse and the wisdon pot / a story from Ghana

The monkey court / a Nigerian folktale

Jackals gets away / a zulu story

The Americas

Rabbit throws away his sandal / a Mayan story

The tale of a lumberjack / Paul Bunyan

How crow brought daylight to the world / an Inuit tale

Coyote brings fire / a native American legend

Why possum's tail i bare / a Cherokee story

Raven and crow's potlatch / a fable of the Pacisfic Northwest

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