Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Narrator: Alma Cuervo
Unabridged: 2 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 06/20/2014
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country & Ethnic
People just can't live together without telling stories. We tell stories that are funny, ironic, insightful, or just simply pleasing to the tongue and ear. Stories just seem to happen. When a story happens with the force of universality, it finds its way into that pantheon of tales that is the common denominator of cultural exchange. Here are 33 such tales, collected from Brazil, China, Korea, Russia, Tibet, Africa, from America's native peoples, and other lands, and chosen for the universality .... Narrators: Alma Cuervo, Jennifer Ikeda, Nyambi Nyambi, Kevin Orton, Greg Steinbruner
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