Eastern Stories and Legends Reading Notes: Part A

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I read a lot about the Jataka Tales and I really enjoyed them so when I saw there was another reading about Jataka Tales, I couldn’t resist. This reading has the monkey and the crocodile story which I am very familiar with. I think I’ve said before how much I loved reading as a child (and now) and I used to have these children encyclopedia set of books. One of those books had a bunch of stories and Monkey and the Crocodile was one of those stories. For those people who are familiar with these stories and enjoyed them as children, I think they would like to here a retelling that keeps the similar aspects of the original but still unique. I think a lot of the problems with remakes is that they can’t live up to the original and yet they try to. Maybe changing the characters to humans, the situation, or the point of view the story is written will work.


Title: Eastern Stories and Legends
Author: Marie Shedlock
Year: 1920 (originally published in 1910)
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