Showing results for "Pond" in Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Once upon a time, when the skies were so blue, brutally streaming into the white powder of shriveled clouds and kissing mountain ridges with a roaring sound of winds...in that time and place lived a family of three innkeepers, an old man with two sons. One of them was a young artist who become a real hero as a native of his regular village near the lake and many ponds around the huge, charming forest alongside.

From the author of The Magic Circle, Zel, and Stones in Water. Who is that handsome green stranger? None of the pond dwellers has ever seen the peculiar new frog before. They found him sitting in a pile of human clothes outside the hag’s house. What a strange frog he is! He gets his feet...

More fables about the lives of the Frogs of Sawhill Ponds. Benjamin Froglin, Dr. Sigmund Frog, and others return to comment with insight and humor on the issues - serious and light - faced by the pond's inhabitants. As with Volume 1, the tales are addressed to children and adults in order to generate thought and raise questions