Playhouse
Rene asks her father and mother to build her a playhouse, a play barn, a play cow, and more, until finally her parents decide that they’d like to have a play Rene.
View ArticleThe Impudent Rooster
Using his amazing swallowing ability, a rooster foils the evil plans of a greedy nobleman and brings back riches to his poor master.
View ArticleLuba and the Wren
In this variation on the story of “The Fisherman and His Wife,” a young Ukrainian girl must repeatedly return to the wren she has rescued to relay her parents’ increasingly greedy demands.
View ArticleAnanse’s Feast: An Ashanti Tale
Unwilling to share his feast, Ananse the spider tricks Akye the turtle so that he can eat all the food himself, but Akye finds a way to get even.
View ArticleWhy the Sky Is Far Away: A Nigerian Folktale
The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away.
View ArticleHungry Hyena
Fish Eagle uses Hyena’s overriding greed to teach him a lesson he won’t soon forget when she tells him the biggest, sweetest meat is in the sky and he just has to climb up to get it.
View ArticleChinye: A West African Folk Tale
Poor Chinye! Back and forth through the dark forest she goes, fetching and carrying for her cruel stepmother and lazy stepsister. Terror lurks behind every tree, and ghostly figures cross her path–but...
View ArticleThe Cloud Spinner
One small boy has a special gift—he can weave cloth from the clouds: gold in the early morning with the rising sun, white in the afternoon, and crimson in the evening. He spins just enough cloth for a...
View ArticleThe Boy from the Dragon Palace
One day, a poor flower sellers drops his leftover flowers into the sea as a gift for the Dragon King. What does he get in return? A little snot-nosed boy–with the power to grant wishes! Soon the flower...
View ArticleThe Greedy Sparrow
A sparrow receives kindness from strangers and repays each act of kindness with a trick to get more, but at last, in a surprising twist, the sparrow is back with his original problem.
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The Man in the Clouds
The Man in the Clouds lives up a mountain and shares his treasure–a beautiful painting–with all the people from the village below. Those whose lives are touched by unkindness and cruetly are especially...
View ArticleRumpelstiltskin
A strange little man helps the miller’s daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child. The post Rumpelstiltskin appeared first on ICCAL.
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The 500 Sheep
The Story is about a stingy and greedy farmer who loses his prized sheep, one by one. The post The 500 Sheep appeared first on ICCAL.
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You Can’t Be Too Careful!
Introduces a colorful cast of characters whose fates are connected in different ways, exploring the importance of kindness and the dangers of greed. The post You Can’t Be Too Careful! appeared first on...
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The Girl with a Brave Heart
After showing kindness to a strange old woman, Shiraz receives the gift of beauty but her lazy and unkind stepsister, Nargues, suffers a less pleasant fate in this adaptation of the Grimm’s fairy tale,...
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Ananse’s Feast: An Ashanti Tale
Unwilling to share his feast, Ananse the spider tricks Akye the turtle so that he can eat all the food himself, but Akye finds a way to get even. The post Ananse’s Feast: An Ashanti Tale appeared first...
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