Fairy tales are significant in inter-cultural teaching and are centered on humor, bravery, strategy, family, leadership, governance and morals. It instills culture, experience, values, knowledge, wisdom, feelings and attitudes into children in a very entertaining way. Storytelling does not only entertain but in every reaction which the child has for distress or humor in the tale, he deposits another layer of vicarious experience which sets his character more firmly in the mould of right or wrong attitude. Every sympathy, every aversion helps to set the impulsive currents of his life, and to give direction to his personality. This is the purpose and all about this book. This book contains simple and humorous tales involving the complexity in animal relationship centered on an animal called "Tortoise". Tortoise who is a symbol of bravery, treachery and wisdom, knows how to defend himself and his family even though he is small. The themes, values, narrative structures, plots, images, metaphors, rhythms, artistic and ethnical principles in this book are very easy to understand. It speaks to the very heart and soul of the child and elaborates what so many parents and teachers spend hours trying to cover up or avoid. These fairy tales confirm what the child has been thinking all along- that there is a world full of challenges awaiting him/her out there. Out of the wisdom of one who knows both storytelling and children, and who holds a thoughtful grasp on educational purpose, I offer these volumes of unusually helpful Story Books. My name is Josiah C. Samuel.

Fairy tales are significant in inter-cultural teaching and are centered on humor, bravery, strategy, family, leadership, governance and morals. It instills culture, experience, values, knowledge, wisdom, feelings and attitudes into children in a very entertaining way. Storytelling does not only entertain but in every reaction which the child has for distress or humor in the tale, he deposits another layer of vicarious experience which sets his character more firmly in the mould of right or wrong attitude. Every sympathy, every aversion helps to set the impulsive currents of his life, and to give direction to his personality. This is the purpose and all about this book. This book contains simple and humorous tales involving the complexity in animal relationship centered on an animal called "Tortoise". Tortoise who is a symbol of bravery, treachery and wisdom, knows how to defend himself and his family even though he is small. The themes, values, narrative structures, plots, images, metaphors, rhythms, artistic and ethnical principles in this book are very easy to understand. It speaks to the very heart and soul of the child and elaborates what so many parents and teachers spend hours trying to cover up or avoid. These fairy tales confirm what the child has been thinking all along- that there is a world full of challenges awaiting him/her out there. Out of the wisdom of one who knows both storytelling and children, and who holds a thoughtful grasp on educational purpose, I offer these volumes of unusually helpful Story Books. My name is Josiah C. Samuel.

The Adventures of Mr. Tortoise consists of a series of short humorous stories that are sure to put a smile on your children's faces and engrave great life lessons in their precious hearts. How Mr. Tortoise got a cracked shell teaches that others can feel bad when we do not do what we agreed on. Especially when we never even tried.

From the author of I Don’t Want to Be a Frog comes a hilarious new picture book that asks readers to solve one very important mystery It’s Mr. Tortoise’s birthday, and he can’t wait to eat cake with his friends. But there’s a hitch! Mr. Tortoise can’t remember how old he is, so his friends don’t know how many candles to put on the cake. And they won’t stop (or slice) until they figure out the mystery. Could Mr. Tortoise be as many years old as there are sections on his shell? He’s twice as big as the smaller tortoise . . . so is he twice as old? After the partygoers work through a variety of possibilities, they find their way to the answer with a simple bit of addition. With text from I Don’t Want to Be a Frog author Dev Petty and hilarious graphic novel–style illustrations from Ruth Chan, How Old Is Mr. Tortoise? will have readers guessing the answer from beginning to end.

The Vernacular is a play, actually a play on words, because some of the dialogue or words in the play are thrown about like a stroke of luck. An African Play on Words brings out in a spectacular way live Black African idioms and their indigenous way of expression. The beginning of the story shows simple meetings and exchanges of views, but as it continues, there are various confrontations – about love and religion – as well as black African history, its silence, mysteries, crude English, and its way of saying or looking at things, some of them musical, some comical. The stories in the book end with an animalistic instinct, where animals of the world are seen exposing their colours, expressing their views about life in the animal kingdom, their grievances, about what the human beings, which the animals call “the master, have overlooked. The book was inspired by the large wave of the African immigration as it features African idioms, proverbs, and their hidden meanings that have been encapsulated into English grammar.

Why Mr Tortoise is Bald is an interesting read about a greedy tortoise who learned the hard way that asking for something is better than stealing.

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl - the world's NUMBER ONE storyteller. High up in a tall building lives Mr Hoppy all alone. Downstairs lives Mrs Silver. Mr Hoppy loves her. And Mrs Silver loves her tortoise, Alfie. Oh, if only Mr Hoppy could perform some great feat that would make him a hero in her eyes! Then one day his mind goes click and an amazing idea rushes into his head. With the help of a magical spell, some cabbage leaves and one hundred and forty tortoises, can shy Mr Hoppy win Mrs Silver's heart? And now you can listen to ESIO TROT ( with THE GIRAFFE AND THE PELLY AND ME) and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! And look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App store and Google Play- including the disgusting TWIT OR MISS! and HOUSE OF TWITS inspired by the revolting Twits.

Timothy, a tortoise who lived in the garden of eighteenth-century curate Gilbert White, speaks out on his life in the garden, his nine-day adventure outside the gate, his observations of the curious habits and habitations of humans, and the natural world around him. 30,000 first printing.