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Winner of PLA/ALLS Best New Books for New Adult Readers and the Storytelling World Award
This number of fifty folktales and parables used to be selected from diverse story traditions such as Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, African, and Native American. Produced from ancient plots both poignant and comical, this anthology accommodates simple truths, common sense, and the promise that we will get pleasure from past generations’ wisdom and experience.
By metaphorically suggesting constructive strategies for living, these ancient tales resonate with a universal appeal. “The characters in these stories would possibly gain wisdom by observing a good example or by bumbling through their very own folly,” Heather Forest observes. “I am hoping these stories will provide discussion and offer insight into joys, sorrows, fears and farce of human experience.” Wisdom tales offer useful insights into life’s joys and sorrows that each one of us experience.