About the Book
Morality regulates the
person and the society properly. It injects values in life and enriches it. The
seeds of the moral values are sown in the childhood. That is the reason perhaps
that all the societies have rich treasures of the stories for children in
literary or oral folklore form. In whatever form, the purpose of the stories
invariably is to inculcate moral values in the characters of the listeners or
readers.
This book presents a
prize collection of moral stories that parents and grandparents have been using
to thrill and charm the children for centuries. These stories were bred and
nurtured by different cultures. The common message of the stories is that only
a good character wins success in life. The stories include the ones narrated by
Buddha to his disciples related to his previous lives.
Although the stories
basically are meant for the children yet the people of all age groups enjoy and
learn from them. The coloured illustrations and simple narrative add to the joy
of reading.
The hunters chased the
fox. To save her life she sneaked into the house of a wood cutter and hid under
a cot. The wood cutter had seen the fox.
A little while later the
hunters arrived there. They asked the wood cutter about the fox. He denied
having seen any fox but at the same time he gave them hint through eye signal
about, where the fox lay hiding. The hunters failed to decipher the signal and
went away. The fox came out of the hiding and began to depart from there. The
wood cutter remarked to her, "You should thank me atleast".
The fox stopped and
turned back to say, ''What for should I thank you? For denying my
presence here or for giving them a hint about where I was hiding?" The
woodcutter had no answer. Such is the fate of the double faced persons.
Foreword
Morality is the base of the human character. Without
it no personal, family or social system can be conceived. The morality is the
essence of all the human values that separate us from the animals. These moral
values are the common base of all religions.
For ages the stories have been used as medium to
teach those moral values. The character and symbolic figures of the stories
fascinate the children and catch their imagination. The mind of a child
naturally imbibes the messages contained in the stories. That is the success of
these stories.
In this age of cable culture the kids prefer cartoon
movies to the serials. They like the concepts that have suspense, thrill,
mischief, adventure and a bit of jingle music. These stories have all those
factors in the worded format.
The children grow a reading habit
and inculcate moral values to form a happy future society, is our
earnest wish.
Contents
The Selected
Stories From Jataka Tales
Real disciple |
3 |
Honoured by a ram |
9 |
Deciding the share |
13 |
Three cunning brothers |
19 |
Natural balance |
26 |
Tit for tat |
31 |
Bad deeds bad end |
35 |
Contents
Moral Stories of Grandpa
The
Snakes and the Frogs |
3 |
The
Kick of the Horse |
4 |
The
Stars are not forever |
5 |
The
Lion's breath |
6 |
The
Fox's generosity |
7 |
The
Crows' challenge |
8 |
A
Lion in love |
9 |
The
faults of others |
10 |
The
Camel's relatives and friends |
11 |
Foolish
Catherine |
12 |
The
old Woman and the Doctor |
13 |
The
Sun and the Wind |
14 |
Two Friends
and a bear |
15 |
The
hard test for a delicate princess |
16 |
The
Wolf in the clothing of a Wolf-dog |
17 |
The
Fisherman and the dancing fish |
18 |
The
hungry Fox and the grapes |
19 |
The
roaring donkey |
20 |
An owl's
partnership with a Seagull |
21 |
A
Mosquito's arrival and departure |
22 |
The
hen and the silver eggs |
23 |
A
Nightingale in a cage |
24 |
How
to choose a Girl? |
25 |
The
first lesson of a mouse |
26 |
The
witch and the children |
27 |
The
cat and the chickens |
28 |
The
Lion's sickness |
29 |
The
creations of deserts |
30 |
Who
is better: The Rose or the Amranth ? |
31 |
The
Gnomes who played a joke |
32 |
Ranu the fox and eels |
33 |
The
farmers and his ass |
34 |
The Dog,
the cockerel and the fox |
35 |
The
sole and the herring |
36 |
The
song of a crow |
37 |
The
son of a pot |
38 |
The
beating of a wolf |
39 |
The
marriage of a hare |
40 |
Contents
33 Moral Stories
The Poppy's riddle |
3 |
The battle between Weasels and Mice |
4 |
A tiny Grasshopper's advice to a Donkey |
5 |
Electra and her suitors |
6 |
The reward of the Wolf |
7 |
The flight of a Stag |
8 |
A Hare's satisfaction |
9 |
We should not criticize nature |
10 |
The Potter's truth |
11 |
The trap of the Fox The wise Cat and |
13 |
the wiser Mouse |
14 |
The athlete who jumped to high |
15 |
The Lion and his business partners |
16 |
A Father's dilemma |
17 |
The Arab and the Beggar |
18 |
Midas Touch |
19 |
A Dog's advice to the Donkey |
21 |
The old Wolf and the skinny Dog |
22 |
The Riddle of the Sphinx |
23 |
Thanks for what? |
24 |
We should not cheat others |
25 |
King Meta band his Javelin |
27 |
Madonna and the flower |
28 |
The Sun, the Moon and the Sea |
29 |
The Cockerel's Cock-a-Doodle-do |
30 |
People Take advantage of other's fight |
31 |
The high flying crane and the peacock |
33 |
A Frog's effort |
35 |
The long and the short of a dinner |
36 |
Revenge of a Nightingale |
37 |
The old Wolf and the bold Goat |
39 |
The Hunter and the Bear |
40 |
About the Book
Morality regulates the
person and the society properly. It injects values in life and enriches it. The
seeds of the moral values are sown in the childhood. That is the reason perhaps
that all the societies have rich treasures of the stories for children in
literary or oral folklore form. In whatever form, the purpose of the stories
invariably is to inculcate moral values in the characters of the listeners or
readers.
This book presents a
prize collection of moral stories that parents and grandparents have been using
to thrill and charm the children for centuries. These stories were bred and
nurtured by different cultures. The common message of the stories is that only
a good character wins success in life. The stories include the ones narrated by
Buddha to his disciples related to his previous lives.
Although the stories
basically are meant for the children yet the people of all age groups enjoy and
learn from them. The coloured illustrations and simple narrative add to the joy
of reading.
The hunters chased the
fox. To save her life she sneaked into the house of a wood cutter and hid under
a cot. The wood cutter had seen the fox.
A little while later the
hunters arrived there. They asked the wood cutter about the fox. He denied
having seen any fox but at the same time he gave them hint through eye signal
about, where the fox lay hiding. The hunters failed to decipher the signal and
went away. The fox came out of the hiding and began to depart from there. The
wood cutter remarked to her, "You should thank me atleast".
The fox stopped and
turned back to say, ''What for should I thank you? For denying my
presence here or for giving them a hint about where I was hiding?" The
woodcutter had no answer. Such is the fate of the double faced persons.
Foreword
Morality is the base of the human character. Without
it no personal, family or social system can be conceived. The morality is the
essence of all the human values that separate us from the animals. These moral
values are the common base of all religions.
For ages the stories have been used as medium to
teach those moral values. The character and symbolic figures of the stories
fascinate the children and catch their imagination. The mind of a child
naturally imbibes the messages contained in the stories. That is the success of
these stories.
In this age of cable culture the kids prefer cartoon
movies to the serials. They like the concepts that have suspense, thrill,
mischief, adventure and a bit of jingle music. These stories have all those
factors in the worded format.
The children grow a reading habit
and inculcate moral values to form a happy future society, is our
earnest wish.
Contents
The Selected
Stories From Jataka Tales
Real disciple |
3 |
Honoured by a ram |
9 |
Deciding the share |
13 |
Three cunning brothers |
19 |
Natural balance |
26 |
Tit for tat |
31 |
Bad deeds bad end |
35 |
Contents
Moral Stories of Grandpa
The
Snakes and the Frogs |
3 |
The
Kick of the Horse |
4 |
The
Stars are not forever |
5 |
The
Lion's breath |
6 |
The
Fox's generosity |
7 |
The
Crows' challenge |
8 |
A
Lion in love |
9 |
The
faults of others |
10 |
The
Camel's relatives and friends |
11 |
Foolish
Catherine |
12 |
The
old Woman and the Doctor |
13 |
The
Sun and the Wind |
14 |
Two Friends
and a bear |
15 |
The
hard test for a delicate princess |
16 |
The
Wolf in the clothing of a Wolf-dog |
17 |
The
Fisherman and the dancing fish |
18 |
The
hungry Fox and the grapes |
19 |
The
roaring donkey |
20 |
An owl's
partnership with a Seagull |
21 |
A
Mosquito's arrival and departure |
22 |
The
hen and the silver eggs |
23 |
A
Nightingale in a cage |
24 |
How
to choose a Girl? |
25 |
The
first lesson of a mouse |
26 |
The
witch and the children |
27 |
The
cat and the chickens |
28 |
The
Lion's sickness |
29 |
The
creations of deserts |
30 |
Who
is better: The Rose or the Amranth ? |
31 |
The
Gnomes who played a joke |
32 |
Ranu the fox and eels |
33 |
The
farmers and his ass |
34 |
The Dog,
the cockerel and the fox |
35 |
The
sole and the herring |
36 |
The
song of a crow |
37 |
The
son of a pot |
38 |
The
beating of a wolf |
39 |
The
marriage of a hare |
40 |
Contents
33 Moral Stories
The Poppy's riddle |
3 |
The battle between Weasels and Mice |
4 |
A tiny Grasshopper's advice to a Donkey |
5 |
Electra and her suitors |
6 |
The reward of the Wolf |
7 |
The flight of a Stag |
8 |
A Hare's satisfaction |
9 |
We should not criticize nature |
10 |
The Potter's truth |
11 |
The trap of the Fox The wise Cat and |
13 |
the wiser Mouse |
14 |
The athlete who jumped to high |
15 |
The Lion and his business partners |
16 |
A Father's dilemma |
17 |
The Arab and the Beggar |
18 |
Midas Touch |
19 |
A Dog's advice to the Donkey |
21 |
The old Wolf and the skinny Dog |
22 |
The Riddle of the Sphinx |
23 |
Thanks for what? |
24 |
We should not cheat others |
25 |
King Meta band his Javelin |
27 |
Madonna and the flower |
28 |
The Sun, the Moon and the Sea |
29 |
The Cockerel's Cock-a-Doodle-do |
30 |
People Take advantage of other's fight |
31 |
The high flying crane and the peacock |
33 |
A Frog's effort |
35 |
The long and the short of a dinner |
36 |
Revenge of a Nightingale |
37 |
The old Wolf and the bold Goat |
39 |
The Hunter and the Bear |
40 |