Animal Stories page 2

Stories including "How the Tiger Got his Stripes" and "The Fox and the Wolf – a Basque Folktale".

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    How the Tiger Got his Stripes

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    The Year of the Tiger starts of February 14 2010. We mark the Chinese New Year with a legend from Asia about How the Tiger Got His Stripes

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    The Fox and the Wolf – a Basque Folktale

    The Fox and the Wolf – a Basque Folktale

    A wolf is so hungry that he decides to eat a fox. But the wily and very feminine fox has other ideas. A story from Spain.

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    The Missing Bunny

    The Missing Bunny

    A chocolaty mystery story for Easter. The police investigate the kidnapping of a very important missing person.

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    The White Snake

    A servant gains the power to understand the speech of fish, birds, animals and insects. He is kind and does favours to various creatures, and they help him in return.

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    The Boy Who Cried Wolf

    Boy Who Cried Wolf

    Aesop’s famous warning about a prank that went too far

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    Happy Birthday Storynory

    YOU tell us what your favourite stories have been over the first three years of Storynory – and We thank you for listening

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    Fidgety Philip

    Fidgety Philip won’t sit still and he drives his poor parents crazy – a poem by Dr Heinrich Hoffmann

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    The Brahman, the Tiger and the Jackal

    This tale from India is about a good-hearted Brahman – or holy man – who is helps a tiger out of a trap.

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    Astropup Part Two

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    The planet of the cats. Our space series takes an eerie turn as the three animals explore the far away place that the space-ship has brought them to. Who will rule this unknown world?

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    Astropup Part One

    Bonzo the dog – otherwise known as Astropup – is taken away from his family and sent into space along with a cat and a parrot. Bonzo tells the exciting and scary story in his own words.