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FOLKTALES AND NURSERY RHYMES
Lee, Jeanne M.

I Once Was a Monkey: Stories Buddha Told

40 pp. | Farrar | April, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-374-33548-6 $$16.00
(3) K-3 Six Jataka tales are retold here in a plain, conversational style complemented by almost severely simple linocut illustrations. In a framework that connects the tales in a natural manner, the stories are told by a statue of Buddha to a group of animals in a temple seeking shelter from a monsoon. The unabashedly spiritual approach of Lee's retellings of these religious stories--often secularized when adapted--is laudable.
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