Creighton University

This is a 24-page pamphlet 7” x 8”.  It features a lively telling of the Panchatantra story.  The story runs as I know it, with a mole substituting for the rat with the friends: deer, crow, and tortoise.  The story has two principal phases: the rescue of the deer and the rescue of the tortoise.  This presentation of the fable includes a page of songs at the end.  Apparently computer-generated graphics.  Young readers can hear the cassette tape and follow the script in this booklet.  I am curious about the relationship of “Karadi Tales” to “Karadi Tales Junior.”  Like the other members of both series, the fable is narrated by Karadi, the bear.  Recommended for ages 4 and up.  The packaging of this “book plus cassette” offers a second book, “The Musical Donkey.”

This is a 24-page pamphlet 7” x 8”.  It features a lively telling of the Panchatantra story.  The donkey loves cucumbers so much that he grows fat on them, stealing from the cucumber garden every evening.  Finally, by moonlight, he is enraptured to sing.  The villagers come and beat him mercilessly.  This presentation of the fable includes a page of songs at the end.  Apparently computer-generated graphics.  Young readers can hear the cassette tape and follow the script in this booklet.  I am curious about the relationship of “Karadi Tales” to “Karadi Tales Junior.”  Like the other members of both series, the fable is narrated by Karadi, the bear.  Recommended for ages 4 and up.  The packaging of this “book plus cassette” offers a second book, “The Four Friends.”

This is a 24-page pamphlet 7” x 8.2”.  It features a lively telling of “The Crows and the Serpent."  The story runs as I know it.  Crows lose their babies to a snake at the base of their tree.  A friendly jackal creates a plan.  One crow snatches a necklace from the queen’s retinue as she bathes, and the other crow caws loudly to draw the royal bodyguards after them to their tree, where they deposit the necklace.  The guards see the deadly snake and kill it and return the necklace.  This presentation of the fable includes a page of songs at the end.  Apparently computer-generated graphics.  Young readers can hear the cassette tape and follow the script in this booklet.  I am curious about the relationship of “Karadi Tales” to “Karadi Tales Junior.”  Like the other members of both series, the fable is narrated by Karadi, the bear.  Recommended for ages 4 and up.  The packaging of this “book plus cassette” promises two books, including “The Monkey and the Crocodile.”  Apparently a second copy of this booklet was inserted into the packaging instead of that second booklet.

This is a 28-page pamphlet 7” x 8”.  It features a lively telling of “The Monkey King."  Kapi the generous king stretches himself out as part of the rope to safety for his people.  The human king admires and restores him, and Kapi forgives his enemy Korung, who landed heavily on Kapi as the last to cross the human bridge.  This presentation of the fable includes two pages of songs at the end.  Apparently computer-generated graphics.  Young readers can hear the cassette tape and follow the script in this booklet.  I am curious about the relationship of “Karadi Tales” to “Karadi Tales Junior.”  Like the other members of both series, the fable is narrated by Karadi, the bear.  Recommended for ages 4 and up.

This is a 24-page pamphlet 7” x 8.9”.  It features a lively telling of FC with appropriate local adjustments for its India readers.  Thus the fox gets not cheese but roti from the crow.  The characters are named with local names.  The fox talks to himself about the crow’s deficiencies before praising those characteristics aloud.  The crow goes back to find another roti but is determined not to be fooled again.  This expanded version of the fable has Prose and rhyming quatrains.  Apparently computer-generated graphics.  Young readers can hear the cassette tape and follow the script in this booklet.  Like the other members of this series, the fable is narrated by Karadi, the bear.  Recommended for ages 3-7.

This is a 24-page pamphlet 7” x 8.9”.  It features a lively telling of “Three Fish.”  The three fish are introduced in terms both general and specific, particularly whether they get things done on time.  The first is punctual, the second procrastinating, the third just lazy.  This version follows the story as I know it – one quick escape, one clever escape, and one non-escape.  Then it has the first two fish come back to save their friend by splashing in the fisherman’s eyes and rescuing their netted friend.  This expanded version of the fable has prose and rhyming quatrains.  Apparently computer-generated graphics.  Young readers can hear the cassette tape and follow the script in this booklet.  Like the other members of this series, the fable is narrated by Karadi, the bear.  Recommended for ages 3-7.