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Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 0763659169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Draws eight stories from well-known collections of Indian folktales--Hitopadesha tales, Jataka tales, and Panchantra tales--and presents them with cartoon-like illustrations.
Author: Marcia Williams
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0763670553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Funny, wise, and entertaining from first page to last." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Step back into ancient India as Marcia Williams brings her inviting comic-book style to eight animal folktales that continue to enchant children today. Drawing from three books of best-loved Indian folktales— the Hitopadesha, the Jatakas,and the Panchatantra —this graphic storybook collection, alive with kidfriendly illustrations, is infused with humor and warmth.
Author: Debu Majumdar
Publisher:
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780983222705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Viku and the Elephant is a story of a boy and a young elephant who become friends in a forest in India. Haatee the elephant communicates with only two sounds-- a happy trumpet or a sad cry-- but Viku and Haatee understand each other perfectly. The story of their adventures together unfolds quickly, as they take on ivory thieves and thwart their selfish, evil plans.
Author: Jane Shuter
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Published: 2008-08
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781432913359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An introduction to the civilization of the Indus Valley, which began in ca. 3500 B.C.E., including its culture, government, writing system, and more.
Author: Tania James
Publisher: Random House India
Published: 2015-02-25
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 8184006896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When a young elephant is brutally orphaned by poachers, it is only a matter of time before he begins terrorising the countryside, earning his malevolent name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries with leaves. Manu, the studious son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger and is drawn into the alluring world of ivory hunting. Emma is working on a documentary set in a Kerala wildlife park with her best friend. Her work leads her to witness the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and she finds herself caught up in her own betrayal. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and revenge, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice. In a feat of audacious imagination and arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells an original and heart-breaking story about how we treat nature, and each other.
Author: Madhur Jaffrey
Publisher: Dial Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An Indian elephant befriends a mouse, a butterfly, and a parrot, and together they have many adventures.
Author: Harish Johari
Publisher: Bear Cub Books
Published: 2003-10-08
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781591430216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The magical story of how Ganesh, the son of Shiva and Parvati, was brought back to life with the head of an elephant • The story of one of the most beloved characters in Indian lore, made accessible for Western children • Illustrated throughout with paintings from the classic Indian tradition Any Indian child can tell you how the beloved god Ganesh got his elephant’s head--now American children can know as well. For centuries Indian children have grown up hearing Ganesh’s story--how his mother, Parvati (an incarnation of the great mother goddess), created a small boy from sandalwood soap and commanded that he guard the palace against all intruders while she took her bath. How her husband, Shiva (the fearsome god of destruction), didn’t take kindly to being barred from his own home. How Shiva beheaded the boy during the cosmic war that followed, but then, when he realized that the balance of the entire universe was at stake, brought the boy back to life by grafting an elephant’s head onto his body and made him the people’s intercessor against the powers of destruction. Ganesh’s timeless story teaches children about the steadfast power of dedication to duty, the awe-inspiring power of a mother’s love for her child, and the gentle power of compassion, which holds the world together. Accompanied by rich, color illustrations prepared according to the traditional Hindu canon, How Ganesh Got His Elephant Head will transport children to a magical world filled with ancient wisdom.
Author: Gillian Clements
Publisher: Sea to Sea Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781597711449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the Indus Valley civilization of Southeast Asia, including what archaeological evidence tells us about their customs and how they built their cities.
Author: Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Published: 1993-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780780721395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of stories that brings to life a favorite character from West African folklore, the mischievous and clever Spider. From how he got a thin waist to why he lives on ceilings, these tales feature his outrageous wit.
Author: Marcia Williams
Publisher: Candlewick
Published: 2019-08-13
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1536201111
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover and cheer the accomplishments of more than seventy amazing women from all over the world and throughout history. They’re activists and explorers, scientists and writers and more. And they’re all women: Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Florence Nightingale, Marie Curie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, Anne Frank, Wangari Maathai, Mae C. Jemison, Cathy Freeman, and Malala Yousafzai, to name just a few. Marcia Williams, through her lively comic-strip style and a clever combination of facts, quotes, and jokes, invites readers to peruse these extraordinary women’s stories, learn about their noteworthy achievements, be inspired to greatness . . . and be thoroughly entertained.
