The
Silly Turtle
and other
Stories from
the East
for children

Stella Sandahl

illustrated by P.S. Nandhan
The blue jackal, the monkey, the crocodile, the clever rabbit, the conceited lion, the foolish tiger - these are some of the colourful characters who meet wonderful adventures and learn the wisdom of their world in these fourteen stories selected and retold from the ancient Panchatantra and Jataka tales of India. As they have done for ages, they will enchant and instruct the young and entertain the old.
Stella Sandahl is a professor at the East Asian Studies department of the University of Toronto. He academic interests include Classical Indian Studies, Modern and Classical Hindi, Modern Indian society and politics shown through literature, language and religion. She graduated Stockhom University with an M.A. in Comparative Literature Indiology, Universite de Paris Sorbonne  with an M.A. in Etudes Indiennes and Linguistique Generale, and the Universite de Paris Shorbonne with a PhD in Indology.

P.S. Nandhan was born in Maduranthagam, Tamil Nadu in 1940. He completed his Diploma in Painting and Advanced Course from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai. His works are a part of prestigious private and public collections in Mumbai, Bangalore, London, New York, Poland, Canada, Australia and Denmark, and have been exhibited in several exhibitions in Kolkatta, Turkey and Mumbai.

CHILDREN'S
ISBN: 9780920661079
Paper $13.95; 64 pages
 
 
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