The Little Seed: A Tale about Integrity

Title

en_US The Little Seed: A Tale about Integrity

en_US Famous Fables

en_US FF23

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First printing

en_US Retold by Susan Kueffner

Creator

en_US Kueffner, Sue See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Hockerman, Dennis

Date

2016-01-25T20:35:59Z

en_US 2012-07

en_US 2007

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:35:59Z

Date Issued

en_US 2007

Abstract

en_US I include this book in the collection not because I think The Little Seed should be viewed as a fable but because this volume is part of a series that is labeled Famous Fables. This twenty-page children's picture book extends onto its back endpaper with tips for parents, including strategies, discussion questions, and activities that grow out of the story. The Little Seed is new to me. An aging monkey king has no children and wants to name his successor as king. He decides to take one of the children. Which one? He gives them all a test: to plant and nurture for six months a seed which he gives them and then to return and show him the results. Amina the elephant child is so disappointed when her seed does not grow, but at her mother's urging she brings the pot before the king when all the other children bring their brilliant flowers. It turns out that the king had boiled all the seeds. Only Amina was honest about her seed. All the others substituted other seeds when the king's seed did not sprout. This is a clever story!

Identifier

en_US 9781599390949

en_US 8957 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/84162

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Reader's Digest Young Families

en_US Pleasantville, NY

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.F368 Lits 2006 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole