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
Moral Stories of Grandpa
The Snakes and the Frogs
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
The faults of others
10
The Camel's relatives and friends
11
Foolish Catherine
12
The old Woman and the Doctor
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
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
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 ?
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
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
33 Moral Stories
The Poppy's riddle
The battle between Weasels and Mice
A tiny Grasshopper's advice to a Donkey
Electra and her suitors
The reward of the Wolf
The flight of a Stag
A Hare's satisfaction
We should not criticize nature
The Potter's truth
The trap of the Fox The wise Cat and
the wiser Mouse
The athlete who jumped to high
The Lion and his business partners
A Father's dilemma
The Arab and the Beggar
Midas Touch
A Dog's advice to the Donkey
The old Wolf and the skinny Dog
The Riddle of the Sphinx
Thanks for what?
We should not cheat others
King Meta band his Javelin
Madonna and the flower
The Sun, the Moon and the Sea
The Cockerel's Cock-a-Doodle-do
People Take advantage of other's fight
The high flying crane and the peacock
A Frog's effort
The long and the short of a dinner
Revenge of a Nightingale
The old Wolf and the bold Goat
The Hunter and the Bear
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