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From the author of The Jungle Book and Kim, Just So Stories is the perfect combination of education and fun to get kids to love reading. It is considered not only a quintessential children's book, but one of Kipling's best works.
How did the elephant get its trunk? How did the leopard get its spots? And how was the alphabet made? Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of fables answers the great questions of animal and humankind in a fun, eloquent...
11) Heidi
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An adaptation of the beloved tale of an orphan sent to live with her grandfather who learns to love both the the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to to the city to be a companion to an invalid.
15) The water-babies
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The adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby.
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The blind man is the wisest man in the village. He asks the hunter to take him hunting everyday, but the hunter doesn't understand how someone who cannot see could possibly be good at hunting. Learn how the blind man is so wise in this story from Western Africa.
17) The Curing Fox
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In this Cree story of compassion, a young girl is very sick. Her parents send for Duck Egg, the old healing woman. Will she be able to save the girl? And why does she hear a tired little she-fox running across the snow when she listens to the girl's chest?
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In this Russian folk tale, the farmer's wife cannot keep a secret. When the farmer finds a box of gold he knows that by the end of the day, the entire village will know, and by the end of the week, the whole country, including the greedy king. How can the farmer keep the king from taking the gold?
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On her way to the market place, an old woman's big pot of honey falls and breaks, spilling honey everwhere! She cries out, asking Papa God why he sent her so much misery. Monkey thinks this woman's misery tastes pretty good. Read this Haitian tale to learn to be careful what you ask for.
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