This lively folk tale from Orissa, India, explains why tigers eat their food uncooked and why cats live with people. The tiger child is sent to fetch some more fire from the village, but on the way he gets distracted by his friends. By the time he gets to the village, he has forgotten what he has been sent to fetch.

The Tiger Child: A Folk Tale from India

Troughton, Joanna

Literature & Fiction

Puffin

A wonderful, rhythmic North American Indian folk tale... As the leaves fall from the trees and the wind blows colder, the animals wish they had fire to keep them warm. But only the Sky People living high in the mountains have fire, and they guard it jealously. Rabbit has a plan, however: he makes a special resin-covered headdress, tricks the Sky People and steals some fire. All the animals help him in an exciting race to escape capture, and each is marked in some way by the stolen fire. Then Deer manages to hide the precious fire in the woods, so it can be theirs forever – but once it’s hidden, how will they get it back?

How Rabbit Stole The Fire

Children's Books

Tortoises Dream

In this tale of the Tupi Indians of the Amazon, the creation myth is altered and there is daylight but no night. Night is kept under the water by the Great Snake, but when his daughter is ill and needs some darkness, he sends her the dark, which is when all the creatures of the night are created.

How Night Came

Penguin Uk

Tortoise's Dream (Blackie Folk Tales of the World)

Animals

Blackie Children's Books

North American Indian Folk-tale, coyote

Who Will Be the Sun?

Bedrick/Blackie

A traditional American Indian folktale recounts how fire was stolen from the Sky people and given to the animals of the earth

How the Rabbit Stole the Fire (Blackie Folk Tales of the World)

Presents a cummulative folk tale about a mother quail's efforts to recover her egg after it rolls into the crevice of a rock.

The Quail's Egg (Folk Tales of the World)

Mythology & Folk Tales

Suitable for children in Year 1 (age 5), The Chinese New Year is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories from a Range of Cultures. The stories draw on myths, legends, folk tales and fairy stories, including Aesop's Fables. The Chinese New Year is one of three stories that have been retold in contemporary language and illustrated with distinctive pictures by Joanna Trougton. Set in China, when the old year was coming to an end, all the animals began to quarrel. Each one wanted the New Year to be named after it. How will the animals decide? Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading.

The Chinese New Year (Cambridge Reading)

Cambridge University Press

The Animal Wrestlers (Cambridge Reading)

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