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Old Wisdom, New Worlds: Timeless fables retold through history
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Fairy Tales & FolkloreGeneral Juvenile Fiction
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the world's oldest lessons could be discovered all over again?
Old wisdom, new worlds: Timeless fables retold through history takes the enduring wisdom of traditional fables and retells it through richly imagined historical worlds, from prehistory and ancient Athens to medieval Europe, Edo-period Japan, Victorian England, wartime Europe and Cold War Berlin.
Across more than 125 pages with illustrations, children meet young characters facing timeless questions: Who can you truly depend on? What happens when pride gets in the way? How do rumours become truth? When should we question what we think we know? What matters most when everything changes?
Rather than simply repeating familiar animal fables, these stories preserve their emotional and moral heart while transforming them into believable human experiences. Friendship, courage, generosity, responsibility, humility, perseverance and honesty emerge naturally through choices and consequences, never through lectures or stated morals.
Written especially for older children, the collection encourages:
- empathy and emotional understanding
- independent thinking and moral reasoning
- curiosity about history and other cultures
- the ability to question rumours, assumptions and incomplete information
- appreciation for different kinds of courage, intelligence and competence
- meaningful conversations about friendship, fairness, fear, pride, kindness and responsibility
Historical detail is woven naturally into everyday life: children work beside their families, travel unfamiliar roads, repair books and bell towers, listen to telegraph wires, flee disasters, navigate divided cities and discover that people separated from us by hundreds or thousands of years often worried about surprisingly familiar things.
These stories can be enjoyed independently, but they are also ideal for reading together. Parents and children can use each story as the beginning of a conversation: What would you have done? Was that choice fair? Why did that person act that way? Does something similar happen today?
Perfect for curious readers who enjoy historical fiction, traditional tales and stories with something deeper beneath the adventure.
The world changes. Human nature changes far less.
Fifteen timeless stories. Fifteen different worlds. Ancient wisdom, carried forward for a new generation.
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