Books with title The Pig Brother and Other Fables and Stories: 36 Short Stories for Children

The book includes 36 short stories for children. Some of the stories are in the form of short poems. Some of the stories include: The Pig Brother, The Coming of the King, About Angels, A Fortune, A Patient Cat, Alice’s Supper, Hockey Pokey, The Naughty Comet, The Shadow, and many more. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of these timeless stories.

The book includes 36 short stories for children. Some of the stories are in the form of short poems. Some of the stories include: The Pig Brother, The Coming of the King, About Angels, A Fortune, A Patient Cat, Alice’s Supper, Hockey Pokey, The Naughty Comet, The Shadow, and many more. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of these timeless stories.

This book is an illustrated version of the original The Pig Brother by Laura E. Richards. “All day long the little boy worked hard, in field and barn and shed, for his people were poor farmers, and could not pay a workman; but at sunset there came an hour that was all his own, for his father had given it to him. Then the boy would go up to the top of a hill and look across at another hill that rose some miles away. On this far hill stood a house with windows of clear gold and diamonds. They shone and blazed so that it made the boy wink to look at them: but after a while the people in the house put up shutters, as it seemed, and then it looked like any common farmhouse. The boy supposed they did this because it was supper-time; and then he would go into the house and have his supper of bread and milk, and so to bed.”

The Tin Cat & other stories is a compilation of twelve short stories for children and young-at-heart adults, set in small fictitious towns and villages in India. Children encounter many different situations in their childhood, and also experience certain emotions. Each story in this collection highlights these situations and emotions. The first story, Tin Cat, deals with sharing, and the value that children place on their things, while the story Butter Biscuits showcases the integrity of the main character and the love she has for her sibling. Justin’s story deals with a child’s need for acceptance in a new neighbhourhood, while A Moment of Madness deals with issues such as kidnapping and fear.The Reminder Saree deals with nostalgia and love for grandparents. Bluebeard brings out the imp in every child, while The Red Velvet Box showcases the inherent curiosity that children have. Divya takes the reader through feelings of sibling jealousy, while The Dark Alley deals with children on the streets, and compassion. The 35p Peacock story talks about disappointment and sibling love, while The Gudugudupandi highlights ‘the fear of the unknown’ that children have. The compilation concludes with The Sea Green Marble, which talks about the trusting nature of children.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.