"[An] elegantly designed picture book... There's a musical lilt to the telling, with each phrase having the same number of beats as the story marches to its inevitable end." -Booklist

Contains a resource book of multicultural materials and includes program ideas, Web sites, and recommended children's books that provide students with information on the traditions, stories, pictures, and music from around the world.

Fairy Tale GOLDFISH. Once a Magic Goldfish got into the old man's fishing net. She asks him to let her go to sea and promises to fulfill any of his wishes. The old man is kind and decided to let her go. However, his old wife is not so kind. She demands too much from the Goldfish and is left with nothing. The moral is that greed is punishable. Perhaps You will discover another side of this Fairy Tale! ◆ Great to Read Aloud for Toddlers Ages 2-6 ◆ Recommended for Children, Parents, and Grandparents The series of Fairy Tales SMALL BOOKS WITH BIG PICTURES is a large collection of illustrated Fairy Tales for Children. In it, we have collected and illustrated the most famous, fascinating and instructive Fairy Tales of various cultures. Each Story teaches kindness, justice, and helps children learn more about the world around them. Authors of the Book series: Kraus Brothers. This is just one fairy tale. Next, you expect a lot of another funny stories. To be continued... p/s Dear Reader! It is very important for me to know YOUR opinion! Please write a few words about the book. It will help to make my book better. Thank You! (c) 2019 All Rights Reserved! Tags: A Cute Children's Fairy Tale for Kids, Funny Fairy Tales for Toddlers, Small books with big pictures, for Toddlers Ages 2-6

In this adaptation of a traditional Russian tale, a lazy boy catches an enchanted fish that offers him a deal: "If you throw me back in and let me swim free, I'll give you anything you desire." For the lazy boy chores are no longer a problem. His newfound magic takes care of everything--but it also creates quite a stir among the villagers, eventually catching the attention of the Tsar himself--"and" his beautiful daughter. Full color.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Booklist • Publishers Weekly In this gorgeous debut graphic novel, fairy tales are the only way one boy can communicate with his Vietnamese immigrant parents. But how will he find the words to tell them that he’s gay? A powerful read about family, identity and the enduring magic of stories. “One of the most astounding graphic novels of the year" –Entertainment Weekly Tien and his mother may come from different cultures—she’s an immigrant from Vietnam still struggling with English; he’s been raised in America—but through the fairy tales he checks out from the local library, those differences are erased. But as much as Tien’s mother’s English continues to improve as he reads her tales of love, loss, and travel across distant shores, there’s one conversation that still eludes him—how to come out to her and his father. Is there even a way to explain what he’s going through in Vietnamese? And without a way to reveal his hidden self, how will his parents ever accept him? This beautifully illustrated graphic novel speaks to the complexity of family and how stories can bring us together even when we don’t know the words. “A lyrical masterpiece.” –BuzzFeed

Bilingual English-Russian Fairy Tale about a magical golden fish that grants the fisherman all his wishes, which leads to trouble.

Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian Folktale, which was based on a seminar on Russian folktales that Propp taught at Leningrad State University late in his life. Edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester, this English edition contains Propp's own text and is supplemented by notes from his students. The Russian Folktale begins with Propp's description of the folktale's aesthetic qualities and the history of the term; the history of folklore studies, first in Western Europe and then in Russia and the USSR; and the place of the folktale in the matrix of folk culture and folk oral creativity. The book presents Propp's key insight into the formulaic structure of Russian wonder tales (and less schematically than in Morphology, though in abbreviated form), and it devotes one chapter to each of the main types of Russian folktales: the wonder tale, the "novellistic" or everyday tale, the animal tale, and the cumulative tale. Even Propp's bibliography, included here, gives useful insight into the sources accessible to and used by Soviet scholars in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Propp's scholarly authority and his human warmth both emerge from this well-balanced and carefully structured series of lectures. An accessible introduction to the Russian folktale, it will serve readers interested in folklore and fairy-tale studies in addition to Russian history and cultural studies.