Buri and the Marrow

As part of the 'World Tales Series', this folk tale from South Asia is about an old woman travelling through a forest to visit her daughter and en route, meeting a fox, a tiger and a lion. One by one, she persuades them not to eat her until her return journey (when she will be 'nice and fat'). Her daughter helps her think of a plan to outwit them but the fox has to be scared off in a different way. Although the text looks crowded at times, with little space around it (the Bengali text looks larger than the English and therefore appears even more cramped on a couple of pages) the text and illustrations are well-matched and the book would lend itself to bilingual story telling. Available in 14 other dual language editions.