Children Of Lir (Irish bilingual ed)
The story of the children of Lir is one of the oldest and best loved of all Celtic tales. It has been told around the fire for thousands of years. Find out the fate of the children of Lir, cursed by their jealous stepmother to live as swans for nine hundred years. Bilingual English with …
Fox Fables (Bilingual ed.)
Two stories in the one book. The Fox & the Crane and The King of the forest. Fox invites Crane to tea but gives her a flat dish so she can’t eat any food . When it is Crane’s turn to invite Fox, what dish does she use? In the Chinese fable ‘King of the …
Yeh-hsien: A Chinese Cinderella (Bilingual ed.)
The oldest version of the Cinderella story originates from China. Befriended by a magical fish, Yeh-hsien is granted her dearest wish – to go to the village festival where she loses a slipper.. “This tale has strong associations with a rags-to-riches story, a virtue rewarded story, a triumph of goodness over meanness.. Opportunities for oral …