The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

Peach Boy And Other Japanese Children's Favorite Stories

Retold by Florence Sakade
Illustrated by Yoshisuke Kurosaki

Grade:

2-3

ISBN-13:

978-4805309964

Publisher:

Tuttle Publishing (2008)

In this Japanese folktale kindness and friendship are rewarded, while greed and cruelty are punished. A gentle old man befriends a sparrow and cares for it daily, but in anger, the man's wife is cruel to the sparrow and sends it away. After the old man reunites with the sparrow, he is rewarded for his kindness and generosity, but his wife is taught a painful lesson for her greed.