"The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal"

What Your Second Grader Needs to Know

Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
 John Holdren

Grade:

2-4

ISBN-13:

978-0553392401

Publisher:

Bantam (2014)

This Indian folktale provides a lesson in justice, honesty, and gratitude. A brahman takes pity on a tiger and releases him from his cage, only to discover that the tiger intends to eat him. In searching for opinions surrounding the justness of this, the brahman and the tiger ask a buffalo, a tree, and a jackal for their opinion. With a clever approach, the jackal manages to return the tiger to his locked cage on behalf of the brahman.