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Animated Tales of the World [3] is a 2001 animated series that aired on HBO and S4C. It was produced by Children's Television Trust International and Christmas Films for S4C and Channel 4 . [ 4 ] The series is an anthology series adapting a unique story from different countries around the world, with each episode having a different art and ...
Britannica's Tales Around the World, written by Douglas Lieberman, teaches kids a familiar fairy tale from around the world, followed by two lesser-known stories that share a similar theme. The series opens up in a computer-generated landscape, containing a floating castle and the planet Earth in the background.
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song that's told or sung to young children. The term dates back to the late-18th and early-19th centuries in Britain where most of the earliest nursery rhymes that are known today were recorded in English but eventually spread to other countries. [6]
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
Japanese folklore studies classify Tikki Tikki Tembo-like tales as tale type NMS 638 The Child with a Long Name. [47]: 737 [Note 2] A typical specimen in Japanese folklore (reported in 1932): The first child was given a convenient short name Chotto, but it soon dies. The parents think it must be because the name was too short, so they give ...
Native American "Little People" from Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers, 1917. Little people have been part of the folklore of many cultures in human history, including Ireland, Greece, the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand, Flores Island, Indonesia, and Native Americans.
A Bedtime Full of Stories: 50 Folk Tales and Legends from Around the World. Written by Angela McAllister. Illustrated by Anna Shepeta. Frances Lincoln Children's Books. 2021. 2022 Aesop Accolades. The Man of the Moon: And Other Stories from Greenland. Retold by Gunvor Bjerre. illustrated by Miki Jacobsen. Translated from Danish by Charlotte ...
The Qallupilluit is featured in the popular children's book A Promise Is A Promise by Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak. In the story, a young Inuk child must outwit the Qallupilluit in order to save her siblings. [8] The Qallupilluit is featured in the graphic novel Putuguq & Kublu & the Qalupalik by Roselynn Akulukjuk and Danny Christopher. [9]