Written in a Brazilian garden and first published in 1917, this collection retells the how-and-why stories told to children in Brazil: how night came into the world, why the tortoise outwits bigger beasts, and how a clever monkey escapes the tiger waiting for him at the last watering hole of a long drought.
Short, lively animal fables from a folk tradition rarely found in English, ideal for reading aloud. Download the free EPUB.