Listen to the Animals (As told by S.G. Pothan)

Title

en_US Listen to the Animals (As told by S.G. Pothan)

en_US Puffin Books

Description

en_US First printing

en_US Shobita Punja (As told to her by her grandfather, S.G. Pothan)

Creator

en_US Pothan, S.G. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US De Miranda, Mario

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:02Z

en_US 2002-12

en_US 1994

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 1994

Abstract

en_US Here are ten stories averaging six to eight pages in length. They are elaborated moral and aetiological stories. Thus the young bee learns that the lotus wants the bee to be kind and polite before she, the lotus, will give up her honey to the bee. A grateful king rewards the brown kingfisher by giving him his royal blue with a pearly necklace. The Let me go if I tell you three truths story is set between a young mountain goat and a tiger. Worried Cockroaches uses the traditional motif of searching through multiple levels to find a worthy spouse for a pretty daughter; here the cockroaches decide, after learning from each animal in a chain that it is afraid of the next one up, that they should simply be proud to be cockroaches. Man at the top of the chain is actually afraid of cockroaches! The Ungrateful Cobra uses the traditional motif of asking three judges. This story also has its own version of repeating the rescue--here it would be that a man rescues a cobra trapped in a burning house--but instead of repeating the scene, the intelligent cobra says that the man is too clever for him, and he departs. The Tiger and the Farmer's Wife uses traditional trickery, especially when the wife thanks the jackal for bringing the tiger. These have their tails tied together, and both suffer in the end. This book saves money by using very small margins around the text.

Identifier

en_US 140240608

en_US 5127 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80712

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Penguin Books India

en_US New Delhi

Subject

en_US PZ7.P97413 Ls 1994 See all items with this value

en_US S.G. Pothan See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole