The Bird of happiness and other Wise Tales

Writer:

Tim Herdon

Publisher:

Oxford Dominoes

About the book

Tales:

8

Pages:

59

The Bird of Happiness

Russia

Characters- little Igor, dad, mum, bird, the doctor.

The bird of happiness

The story:

This story talk about a family .They lived in forest, in Russia, and Igor loved birds singing. One day Igor got very ill and he wanted from his dad a bird, but it was winter so there were not any birds. His dad was a woodcutter so he madea wooden bird . The bird made him fell better because Igor wanted to touch him and his dad put it higher and higher. His dad named the bird The Bird of Happiness.

The thief of smells

The thief of smells

America

Plot: This story is about a baker and a youg poor boy. One day the backer scolded the young boy and dragged him to the judge for smelling his bread without paying. The judge found a clever solution to their problem.

The alchemist

Burma

Characters : The old man, his doughter and his son-in-law.

The alchemist

Plot: This story is about a young man that wanted to change dirt in gold. He tried it for a lot of time but unsuccessful. His father-in-law told him that he know the secret. After seven years the young man become rich with the old's man help.

Good luck or bad luck?

Good luck or bad luck?

China

Characters: The old men , his son, the villigers.

Plot : The story talk about an old man tha had to live alone for some years beacuse his son was far for going to school. The people in the village felt so sorry for the man . The man's life was not easy, he was both lucky and unfortunate, but he always told people that he either consoled or congratulated him:Good luck or bad luck,, who knows?.

The basket of eggs

Egipt

Characters :Abdullah,Mousa,Khaled,the people on the boat.

The story: Is about a young man that want to become rich . His friend has the solution for him: sell thing with more money than he bought them. He was very exited when his friend gave him 300 eggs to sell for starting this new life . But when he went to sell the eggs something happened and his dream was over.

A gift of God

Mexico

Characters:Mario, Mario's wife , Pedro, the old man.

The story is about two friend . One of they was very lazy , and his friends gave him food from his shop. One day Pedro has angry because his friends do nothing all the day and then comes in his shop for food. So he said to him to work at his house .Mario don't accept because he say is to hard for him .One day Mario met a man and he said that: God prepared something for Mario, but only for Mario .

A wise woman

Guinea, West Africa

Characters: The chief, the old man , Zia, the boy.

The story is about a very clever women , Zia , and her husdband , the chief. He follen in love with her because she was so wise , but when he married he , he asked only a think : Never try to help with the problems that people bring me . But she did it some years after. She was a clever woman so she knowed how to resolved it-

The drum

India

Characters:Ravi, Ravi's mom , the old woman , the young woman with a baby, the man and his wife, the man with the horse, the people at the wedding.

The story is about Ravi that wished very much a drum . his mother couldn't buy it for him and she gave him a piece of wood . He helped a woman to make a fire with the wood and after that his dream was about to become reality.

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The bird of Happiness and Other Wise Tales

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