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Multicultural Tales to Tell

By: Pleasant DeSpain
Narrated by: Pleasant DeSpain
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About this listen

 From twenty-year veteran storyteller Pleasant DeSpain - known for reducing folktales to their essence - twenty "retellable" folktales from around the world. Folktales captivate generation after generation because they remind us that our forebears overcame seemingly insurmountable odds - and we can, too! Folktale characters show us the best in ourselves - our sense of humor, our perseverance, our resilience that overcomes giant hurdles, and our innate sense of fair play.

For Ages 5 to Adult

©1994 Pleasant DeSpain (P)1994 August House Publishers, Inc. Anthologies & Short Stories Collections & Anthologies Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths Fiction Literature & Fiction Tradition Witty Short Story

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Editor reviews

Every Culture around the world tells stories and, with so many people, there’s certainly no shortage of tales. Pleasant DeSpain is a skilled storyteller who crafts verbal yarns from folklore that he’s gathered in his travels around the world. This audiobook blends fun, culturally relevant musical accompaniment with DeSpain’s colorful voices and jocular narrations. This multicultural collection includes "Old Joe and the Carpenter", an American folktale that teaches the simple lesson that friendship is more important than possessions; "Grandfather Spider’s Feast", an African tale where a spider’s greed gets the better of him; and many more delightful stories from around the globe.
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I like the fact that each chapter has 5 stories in each. The longest story is 10 minutes but most are 5 minutes long. the list of stories and chapters are below.
CHAPTER 1 joe and the carpenter (usa), Grandfather spider feast (africa), Clever Gretal (germany), A shang catches a ghost (china), How the mosquito left Kambara (fiji)
CHAPTER 2 Signor rattlesnake learns to fly (mexico), The goat and the rock (tibet), Natural habits (africa), Ada and the rascals (holland), Madison's wall (native American tribe),
CHAPTER 3 Hungry spider (a chanti tribe africa), Peter and the winter sprite (sweden), The listening cap (japan), Juan's maguey plant (mexico), The miser (usa)
CHAPTER 4 The mirror (korea), coyote steal spring (pacific north West), Alexander the dwarf and troll (denmark), The chirimia (guatemala), The colossal pumpkin ( africa)

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Multicultural tales for kids from around the world

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