Moral Stories of Grandma

Title

en_US Moral Stories of Grandma

en_US Young Reader Value Based Indian Writings

Description

en_US Retold by Rashmi Jaiswal

Creator

en_US Jaiswal, Rashmi

Date

2017-05-15T20:34:00Z

en_US 2013-12

en_US 2013?

Date Available

2017-05-15T20:34:00Z

Date Issued

en_US 2013

Abstract

en_US Forty-four stories get one -- and often more -- partial-page black-and-white designs each. The stories are mostly standard Aesopic offerings. The book is a solid inexpensive paperback. I found several in the series while I was in the Oxford Bookstore in Kolkata. This copy is marked down 10 rupees as an introductory offer. There is a T of C for the numbered stories at the beginning. Almost all are familiar stories, even when told with some variations. Several, e.g., "Friendship of the Owl and the Swan" (90) and and "Brainless Donkey" (93), are variants of stories appearing in other books in the series. New to me are "Palms Without Hair" (21), "The Clever Prince" (100), and "The Sage and the Snake" (137). "The Greedy Man" (43) has a man walking an extra kilometer time after time to get a cheaper coconut. It turns out that the cheapest coconut is the one he brings down from the tree, but he suffers multiple injuries in a fall. The bear of the usual tale about smashing a friend's head to kill a fly here is a monkey bodyguard for a king (128).

Identifier

en_US 11164 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/113007

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Future Publishers

en_US Liluah Howrah, India

Subject

en_US Panchatantra

Type

en_US Book, Whole