The Cat, the Mouse and the Talking Cow: Bedtime Stories from the Mahabharata: 3 (Before the Lamp Goes Out) - Softcover

The Cat, the Mouse and the Talking Cow : Bedtime Stories from the Mahabharata

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There was a snake in the yard that afternoon, and the men killed it with a hoe, and the girl looked at it longest. By evening she has a stick of her own, and she has been going along the bottom of the wall with it, turning over stones.Her grandmother takes the stick out of her hand without saying anything about it, and sits her down by the cooking fire.'It is not a telling-off,' she says. 'You will know a telling-off when you get one from me. There was a man once who did exactly what you have been doing, and he did it for eleven years. And then something looked up at him and spoke.'A fish the length of a thumbnail asks a man not to put it back in the river, and then needs a bigger bowl, and then a pond, and then a lake, and then the sea. Four chicks who cannot yet fly argue their mother out of staying to die with them. A mouse who has been hiding from the same cat for twenty years works out that the safest place in the world, this morning, is sitting on that cat's back. A tree tells the wind it cannot be broken, and then spends the whole night breaking off its own branches before the wind can. And a worm hurrying across a cart road stops to explain to the greatest sage alive why it would like to be there tomorrow.Every story leads into the next, until the girl decides for herself what a stick is actually for.The Cat, the Mouse and the Talking Cow tells eighteen stories about animals from the Mahabharata, for children aged 6 to 10 and the grown-up reading to them.- Eighteen stories, each about five minutes long, with the reading time printed under every title- Every story ends with a question that leads straight into the next one- Funny where it can be and honest where it can't, with no lecture tacked on at the end- Hard stories are allowed to stay hard - the girl is allowed to object, and her grandmother is allowed to agree with her- Two of the eighteen are sad ones, in Acts Four and Five, and the book tells you before it gets to them- The source is named after every story, so a curious child can one day find the original Book Three of Before the Lamp Goes Out, the Mahabharata told at bedtime, one night at a time. Reads on its own; no need to have read Books One or Two. Artikel-Nr. 9798176108491

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