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A Bag of Lucky Rice
USD $10.95 Read moreOccasionally, from out of nowhere, comes a story from a totally unknown writer that really touches the heart. This story is such a tale: a charming, somewhat old-fashioned, and totally authentic story of the Old West. It features Rusty Dalton, (read more)
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The Most Beautiful Thing: Hardcover
USD $17.99 Add to cartA warmhearted and tender true story about a young girl finding beauty where she never thought to look. Drawn from author Kao Kalia Yang's childhood experiences as a Hmong refugee, this moving picture book portrays a family with (read more)
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The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai: Hardcover
USD $24.95 Add to cartFrom School Library Journal: Tojiro, a nine-year-old orphan, sells rice cakes on the streets of 19th-century Edo, the bustling city we now call Tokyo. One of his customers is the grumpy, eccentric octogenarian Hokusai. The old man takes a liking (read more)
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Bhagavadgita
USD $5.00 Add to cartThe Bhagavadgita is part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, and it is one of the major religious documents of the world, occupying in Hinduism a position not unlike the Sermon on the Mount in Christianity. One of the (read more)
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Siddhartha
USD $4.00 Add to cartThis classic novel of self-discovery has inspired generations of seekers. With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddharthais the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality. His quest takes him from the (read more)
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The Drum: A Folktale from India
USD $4.95 Read moreIn this story from India, a poor boy's dream of having a drum takes him on an unlikely journey of discovery. He meets several people who guide him along the way. In time, he learns to make his own "magic" (read more)
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Farmers of Forty Centuries – Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan
USD $16.95 Add to cartI have carried a copy of Farmers of Forty Centuries around with me for almost 40 years and go back to it regularly, each time finding something new, useful, and insightful that I somehow hadn't really seen in all (read more)
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Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China
USD $7.99 Add to cartIt takes a lot more than substitution of names to create an authentic retelling of a folk tale. The beautiful thing about folk tales from different cultures is that each one teaches you a bit about the culture as you (read more)
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Myths and Legends of Japan
USD $12.95 Add to cartWow. What an amazing collections of stories and delicious cultural/historical tidbits - and retold so very well! Here are the most popular Japanese myths of gods, heroes and warriors; legends of Buddha, and of the goddess Benten and the (read more)
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The Brown Fairy Book
USD $14.95 Add to cartClassic collection of 32 less familiar folk tales narrated in clear, lively prose. Different enough to capture all imaginations, the tales are drawn from many different cultures: the American Indians, Australian Bushmen, African Kaffirs, and from Persia, Lapland, Brazil, and India. (read more)
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The Carpenter’s Daughter
USD $10.00 Add to cartIn the Land of the Rising Sun, the Emperor asks a master carpenter to build a teahouse in the Garden of Tranquillity. Permission is granted for the carpenter's daughter to accompany him to work, but only after she promises to (read more)
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The Crimson Fairy Book
USD $16.95 Add to cartThe Crimson Fairy Book contains a fascinating collection of tales from many countries: Hungary, Russia, Rumania, Finland, Iceland, Japan, and Sicily are only some of them. Filled with imagination, excitement, and adventure, these tales will delight children with (read more)
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The Jungle Book
USD $5.00 Add to cartWhen Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book, he created a story of such endurance and vitality that more than 100 years later, children are still enthralled with these tales of the boy Mowgli who is raised by wolves in (read more)
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The Jungle Book: The Illustrated Hardcover Edition
USD $30.00 Add to cartWhen Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book, he created a story of such endurance and vitality that more than 100 years later, children are still enthralled with these tales of the boy Mowgli who is raised by wolves in (read more)
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The Olive Fairy Book
USD $14.95 Add to cartThe Olive Fairy Book includes unusual stories from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, the Sudan, and the pen of Anatole France. But all of the stories are told in the common language of the fairy tale, and their heroes — (read more)
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The Orange Fairy Book
USD $14.95 Add to cartThe Orange Fairy Book delves into the oral traditions of Rhodesia, Uganda, and the American Indian; the traditions of the Punjab and of Jutland; and such familiar European sources as Hans Christian Andersen (“The Ugly Duckling”) and Madame (read more)
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The Violet Fairy Book
USD $14.95 Add to cartRomania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia are among the sources of these 35 stories that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon. Perhaps the best English versions (read more)