Buddhist Animal Wisdom Stories | 
| Author: Mark W. Mcginnis
Publisher: Weatherhill
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 221825
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.7 x 0.7
ISBN: 0834805510
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.382325
EAN: 9780834805514
ASIN: 0834805510
Publication Date: November 9, 2004
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Product Description
Around the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles?from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride, foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these stories with people, they cast the animals of their immediate environment in the leading roles?which may have given the tales a universal appeal that helped them travel around the world, surfacing in the Middle East as Aesop's fables and in various other guises throughout East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia, and Europe. Author and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over forty of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact. Each story is accompanied with a beautifully rendered full-color painting, making this an equally attractive book for children and adults, whether Buddhist or not, who love fine stories about their fellow wise (and foolish) creatures.
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 Loved it! December 4, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book to read to little ones! My daughters love the illustrations and the stories are good conversation starters. Great book!
Wonderful! July 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The illustrations in this book are incredibly lovely. They just made me want to tear them out and have them framed. I also enjoyed the selection of stories. It is definitely a book "for children of all ages," as the saying goes. Perhaps I should mention that the text requires reading ability beyond that of young people in the early grades. But one can read aloud to younger children...
 Opens The Door For Conversation January 19, 2006
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I purchased this book to read to my 6 year old son. At first he thought it was 'boring' and not quite the type of book he was used to for a bedtime story. Over the last month we have been reading it, one story at a time, and he has come to appreciate that each story opens up a conversation for us. We try to discern the moral of the story (which is what each story presents) and then we discuss whether or not we agree with the moral. So far we have found 2 stories in this book with contradicting morals--the Myna Bird and the Burning Tree tells of birds who met their doom because they did not listen to a warning. The Panicked Rabbit tells of an entire forest who 'followed the herd' after a warning, but there was no danger after all. I found this confusing at first, but it did offer my son and I an opportunity to scrutinize the morals and decide for ourselves which one we thought was smarter. The stories are very short (1/2 to 2 pages ea) and contain some rather sophisticated words, which we appreciate as they help us expand our vocabulary.
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