Advantages: A good folk-tale from a different culture. Disadvantages: Younger children may take the story too literally!
...illustrated by Joanna Troughton in the 'Folk Tales of the World' series which are quite widely used in schools across the land as it's a stipulation that children's minds are 'opened up' to different cultures, hence that I have acquired a few of the books in the series.
- The Tiger Child -
This folk tale is from Orissa in India.
It begins 'long ago' with a tiger cooking his food, yes that's right, cooking his food with a pot over a heap of burning ... ...the village to ask for some fire. Not surprisingly, the villagers are terrified of the tiger and lock themselves away.
The tiger then decides to ask his nephew to go to the village to ask for some fire, assured that the villagers would not be scared of such a small tiger, a 'Tiger Child'.
However, on his way to the village the young tiger is distracted by playing with the monkeys, splashing in the water pools etc so that by the time he arrives ...
neenn 03.06.2007
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