Brrr! Manohar shivers as his mother pours water over him. He is standing outside his house in the village of Amtala, India, and the morning air is cold on his bare skin. But he must bathe first thing...
The Five Chinese Brothers
a Chinese folk tale retold by Claire Huchet Bishop Once upon a time there were Five Chinese Brothers and they all looked exactly alike. They lived with their mother in a little house not far from...
The Shoemaker and the Elves
> adapted from a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm There was once a shoemaker who worked very hard but was also very poor. At last, all he had was just enough leather to make one pair of...
There Was an Old Woman
There was an old woman > Lived under a hill, > > And if she's not gone I Had a Little Nut Tree I had a little nut tree, Nothing would it bear But a silver nutmeg And a golden pear; The King...