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Emerald tree

a story from Africa
Retells the story of how Muoma, a beggar boy, retrieves a princess's hair from a bird.
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Bobo's magic wishes

a story from Puerto Rico
A Puerto Rican folktale which tells of Juan Bobo, a young man whose foolish antics win him the hand of a princess and a life of ease in her father's castle.
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The golden flower

a story from Egypt
1996
During a magical boat ride on the Nile, Mutemwia proves that her love for the Pharaoh is a gift of the heart and needs no cage to hold it.

Tam's slipper

a story from Vietnam
1996
In this Vietnamese version of the Cinderella story, a mysterious woman dressed in the royal colors of orange and yellow provides Tam with beautiful clothes, slippers, and a horse to go to the harvest festival.

Why spider spins tales

a story from Africa
1996
Retells the story of how Spider acquired the Sky God's stories.

Mancrow's feather

a story from Jamaica
1996
Mancrow, a powerful half-bird, half-man creature, steals all the colors of the world when he becomes angry with Solidae, a young girl who yelled at him for taking away Iguana's color, but Solidae forms a plan to get the colors back.

Bobo's magic wishes

a story from Puerto Rico
1996
A Puerto Rican folktale which tells of Juan Bobo, a young man whose foolish antics win him the hand of a princess and a life of ease in her father's castle.

Why Opossum is gray

a story from Mexico
1996
Relates the traditional Cora Indian tale in which Opossum outwits the larger and more powerful Iguana and returns the stolen fire to the people of the earth.

How night came to be

a story from Brazil
1996
The daughter of the ruler of the ocean, where it is always dark, visits the world above where it is always day. She falls in love and decides to stay, but she misses the dark and asks her father to send her some darkness.
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