Buri and the marrow
Subtitle: An Indian folk tale
By: retold by Henriette Barkow ; illustrated by Lizzie Finlay ; Tamil translation by Nallanthamby Rajalingam.
Contributors: Finlay, Lizzie, ill.; Rajalingam, Nallanthamby.
Published: 2000
Language: tam
Subjects: Folklore -- India -- Juvenile literature.; Folklore -- India -- Bengal.; Animals -- Folklore.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Folklore.
Work titles: Buri and the marrow.
Description: As an old woman travels through the forest to meet her daughter, a fox, a tiger and a lion try to eat her. Buri tells them to wait until she returns, then she'll be nice and fat. When it is time for her to go home, her daughter thinks of a plan which fools the lion and the tiger.
Notes: Parallel text in English and Tamil.