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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Kindness Tales is the third book in a trilogy that includes Peace Tales and Earth Care from award-winning author, popular storyteller, and highly-respected folklorist, Margaret Read MacDonald. Margaret has curated a collection of forty-two of her favorite stories that celebrate the timeless power of kindness to make the world a gentler, safer, and more loving place. These tales from the world's great oral traditions share the common theme that thoughtful...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this Appalachian version of The Kind and the Unkind Girls, two sisters--Bess and Tess--are sent by their mother to draw water from the Well-at-the-End-of-the-World. Along the way they meet a bear, a mountain lion, a wild boar, and three little foxes. When Bess greets them with courtesy and respect, the foxes reward her kindness. Tess, greedy for her own bounty, can't be bothered with manners; she bonks the animals with her bucket, kicks them with...
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