Videos for children

A selection

As the video gallery has grown so large, here are suggestions for younger listeners

• Birbal and Akbar’s Missing Thumb
  How even people we like can get on our nerves
• Blood-Covered Vampire
  A new recording of an ever-popular tale, and not just for Hallowe’en
• Boys and God
  A tale all parents will understand
• Boys who wouldn’t listen
  From the classic Indian collection, The Panchatantra
• Cat and the Dog
  An Irish version of Aesop’s Tortoise and the Hare, showing why it is that cats sleep by the fire
• Foolish Jack
  What happens when you have the right smile
• Free Melons
  A storyteller’s problem
• Frightened Mouse
  A telling based on The Sage and the Mouse, in the Indian collection, The Hitopadesha 
  (accompanying Activity Teaching Pack available)
• Gandharva Sen is Dead
  A delightful Bengali tale of too much sympathy
• Giant and the Squirrel
  A Swedish folk tale
• King Midas and the Touch of Gold
  The classic tale of unintended consequences
• Leopard-Eating Dog (video in English plus an audio recording in German)
  A comic tale from the ancient Sanskrit collection, The Panchatantra
• Magic Pear Tree
  A tale of greed punished
• Nasruddin Saves a Man
  The hodja finds that what works once, may not work twice
• Nasruddin’s Cat
  Another wonderful Hodja story
• Nasruddin’s Three Sermons
  Nasruddin’s answer to the problems of public speaking
• Old Woman and her Pig
  Will the old woman get home before midnight?
• Shipwright and the Witches
  An English tale of mathematics and how Jack escaped the gallows while building a ship for the king
• The Shoemaker and the Elves
  A Christmas tale from the Brothers Grimm
• Strongest of Them All
  Jack finds he is not the strongest after all
• Tale of a Tailor
  One of the shortest folk tales, here shortened to 60 seconds
• Thieves’ Competition
  A tale of trickery as three thieves compete to prove which one is the cleverest
• Three Sillies
  An English folk tale about silliness and marriage
• Tops or Bottoms
  How a clever farmer tricked a giant (and how the blue-black potato Vitelotte first came to earth)
• Tortoise Called “All of You”
  Can a smooth-talking trickster fill his belly? This Nigerian tale warns that pride can lead to a fall
• Tortoise Wins the Spicy Food Competition
  Spicy peppers are great, but your mouth may need cooling down – Trickster Tortoise has the answer
  (accompanying Activity Teaching Pack available)
• What are the People Like?
  An old folk tale of tolerance for today’s world
• Woman’s Work
  A Scandinavian tale proving that men can learn after all

The video gallery has not only these tales, but many others for all ages and all tastes

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