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The Wolf and the Crane Annelie van Steenbergen, text and illustrations In most fairy tales, fables and folk tales in Western culture, the wolf is the bad guy. Nothing is more satisfying than blaming this creature for your own misdeeds or stupidity. Think of the naive Little Red Riding Hood who ignores her mother’s advice […]
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The Lion, the Cow, the goat and the sheep Annelie van Steenbergen, text and illustrations ‘The righteous are bold as a lion. It is not good for a poor person to associate with rich rulers, for the powerful are never fair to the poor.’ That is the moral of the sixth fable [1] of Aesopus,
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The Dog and the Meat Annelie van Steenbergen, text & illustrations ‘It happened that a dog had got a piece of meat in his mouth and, on his way home, walked across a plank with water underneath it.’ This is the first sentence of a fable of only four sentences by the Greek narrator Aesop
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Life Lessons from Mole, Fox and Horse Based on a story by Charlie Mackesy Retold by Erfan Pourmohammadi Charlie often feels alone in life, until he comes across Mole who seems particularly passionate about pie. The two start a friendship; and when Charlie opens up about his fears, Mole manages to reassure him with his
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Kompa Nanzi ku Kompa Kriki ― Kompa Nanzi and Kompa Kriki Nilda Pinto From: Pinto, N. (2018, 1st edition). Kuenta di e araña Kompa Nanzi; Stories of the spider Kompa Nanzi. Curaçao: Fundashon Instituto Raúl Römer (p. 132-136) Kompa Kriki[1] tabata gran amigu di Nanzi. P’esei Nanzi a kombid’é bin pasa dia serka dje. Kompa
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Nanzi ku e kolebra Barbakiná ― Nanzi and the snake Barbakiná Nilda Pinto From: Pinto, N. (2018, 1st edition). Kuenta di e araña Kompa Nanzi; Stories of the spider Kompa Nanzi. Curaçao: Fundashon Instituto Raúl Römer. (p. 92-97) Koma Barbakiná tabata pepe di Pegasaya, e yu mas chikitu di Kompa Nanzi. Tur ora e madrina
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The Sacred Talking Drum and the Spider Originally told by Mrs. Annie Lydie Idime in Mbomo and translated into French by Théophane Bokaka Bouanga. Retold in Dutch by Heidi Muijen and Tess van Dongen and translated into English by Greg Suffanti – for QFWF- Animal wisdom collection nr. 2 Being proud of your heritage does not
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Ananse and Crocodile Ewe/ Akan people story from the Volta region in Ghana Told by Kofi Dorvlo Ananse and the crocodile were friends and they contributed their quota to the development of the village in which they reside. The inhabitants in the village found crocodile to be good at block laying and entrusted most of
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