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  2. Storybook International - Wikipedia

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    Storybook International (also known as Stories and Fables) is a British children's television series, produced for ITV by Harlech Productions, a part of HTV and written by Barry Levinson and Virginia Boston. [1]

  3. Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable - Wikipedia

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    Timon and Pumbaa decide to help the humans give back to nature, but Simba shows them that they already can at home. Timon and Pumbaa unclog the rivers, thus giving the water back to the other creatures on the Savannah. Simba ends the story with his roar and the film closes with a shorter montage set to the end of the title song.

  4. We Are Water Protectors - Wikipedia

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    We Are Water Protectors is a 2020 picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade. Written in response to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests , the book tells the story of an Ojibwe girl who fights against an oil pipeline in an effort to protect the water supply of her people.

  5. The Five Chinese Brothers - Wikipedia

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    In the Imperial China of the Qing dynasty, there are five brothers who "all looked exactly alike."They each possess a special talent: the first brother can swallow the sea, the second has an unbreakable iron neck, the third can stretch his legs to incredible lengths, the fourth is immune to burning, and the fifth can hold his breath forever.

  6. Fable - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...

  7. The Heron and the Fish - Wikipedia

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    It passed up several small fish and ended up going hungry when the fish moved to cooler water, out of the heron's reach". [12] The telling too has travelled some distance away from the lakeside heron described in the Opusculum fabularum. Other versions for children claim Aesop as original author and spin out the detail of the original pithy fable.

  8. Childcraft - Wikipedia

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    Childcraft was created as a sort of encyclopedia for young children. With simple texts and illustrations, the volumes were designed to make learning fun. Each volume addressed different subjects, including literature — such as short stories and poetry, including fairy tales and nursery rhymes — as well as mathematics and the sciences.

  9. The Honest Woodcutter - Wikipedia

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    The Greek version of the story tells of a woodcutter who accidentally dropped his axe into a river and, because this was his only means of livelihood, sat down and wept. . Taking pity on him, the god Hermes (also known as Mercury) dived into the water and returned with a golden