This book contains a collection of legends and fairy tales, poems and songs, ancient lore and modern adventure stories that animals from forests around the world tell and sing to their young, usually before bedtime. The collection also includes stories from the village of Okhotki, which will allow wild readers to get acquainted with the beliefs, myths, daily life, and customs of the little-studied rural animals. "Beasty Tales" by Anna Starobinets is a spin-off of the popular "Beasty Detective" series, intended for all its fans and their younger siblings. Here, the Senior Badger of the Far Forest Police tells his little badger cub about the Sky Bears. Polkan the dog entertains his puppy, Mukhtarchik, with stories about the Great Dane and his sworn enemy, Pussy-Don. A Persian cat recalls how the black sorcerer cat Noir lured her into the Forest of Shadows. The owl brothers Ug and Chuck learn that the Near Forest used to be a field of honey-carrots grown by the flying hare Kryulukh. Melesandra the badger convinces her daughter that her daddy was the first badger on the Moon. A brave gopher named Trembling Tail listens to the story of the laughing witch Coya, the progenitor of the coyotes; Rafik the giraffe calf hears the legend of the Mango Gods who created the first animals of the desert; a penguin chick hears hunting stories from a shark-specialist penguin; and a young fox cub hears a blood-chilling arctic fox tale about the Frozen Demon.
Author: Anna Starobinets
Illustrations: Maria Muravski
Pages: 176 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 170x240 mm
Series: Beasty Detective
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