152 pages : 21 cm

Folktales and legends from Korea, Burma, China, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, Kashmir, Japan, Arabia, Persia, Laos, Indonesia, Malaya, Polynesia, and Yap

The scholar of Kosei (Korea) -- The tiger's whisker (Korea) -- The tiger's minister of state (Burma) -- The trial of the stone (Burma) -- The hidden treasure of Khin (Burma) -- The king who ate chaff (Burma) -- The musician of Tagaung (Burma) -- The rice puller of Chaohwa (China) -- The spear and shield of Huan-tan (China) -- The ambassador from Chi (China) -- The king of the forest (China) -- The trial at Avichara-pura (Ceylon) -- The prince of the six weapons (India) -- The man from Kailasa (India) -- Krishna the cowherd (India) -- The scholars and the lion (India) -- The traveler and the nut tree (Kashmir) -- The debt (Kashmir) -- The boy and the cloth (Kashmir) -- The wrestler of Kyushu (Japan) -- The counting of the crocodiles (Japan) -- Abunuwas the trickster (Arabia) -- The spotted rug (Arabia) -- The philosophers of King Darius (Persia) -- Dinner for the monk (Laos) -- The well diggers (Indonesia) -- Guno and Koyo and the kris (Indonesia) -- The learned men (Indonesia) -- The war of the plants (Malaya) -- Maui the great (Polynesia) -- The great lizard of Nimple (Yap)

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