The lion and the puppy
Subtitle: and other stories for children
By: Leo Tolstoy ; translated by James Riordan ; illustrated by Claus Sievert
Contributors: Sievert, Claus, ill; Riordan, James, 1936-
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781616084844
Subjects: Tales; Folklore
Work titles: Short stories
Description: A collection of twenty-five short Russian folktales with lessons and morals.
Table of contents: title: The lion and the puppy; title: Little Cottontop; title: Escape of a dancing bear; title: Mashaand-the mushrooms; title: Death of a bird-cherry tree; title: Little Philip who wanted to go to school; title: A young boy's story of how a storm caught him in the forest; title: The king and the shirt; title: Brothers learn a lesson; title: A young boy's story of how he found queen bees for his granddad; title: The tired swan; title: The old fire-dog; title: Merchants; title: The old poplar; title: How many geese make six?; title: The "dead" man and the bear; title: The little bird; title: The plum stone; title: Better to be lean and free than piulllp and chained; title: A young boy's story of how he did not go to town; title: Dew upon the grass; title: Uncle Jacob's dog; title: Why wolves are mean and squirrels frisky; title: The ants; title: From an acorn grew an oak tree tall.