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20 Jataka Tales
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Our Price: £11.99
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Retold by Noor Inayat Khan.
The author's simple narrative captures the magical and timeless beauty of these famous legends. The stories are ideal for reading to children, as they tell of highly dramatic adventures that are resolved by non-violent and compassionate means. Challenging circumstances bring forth courage and the capacity to love opening the way to solutions against seemingly impossible odds.
148 pages; illustrated by H Willebeek Le Mair.
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Golden Foot
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Our Price: £7.95
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A Jataka Tale: a graceful doe offers her life to save her mate, entangled in a hunter's snare.
30 pages in full colour. For younger children.
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Great Gift and the Wish Fulfilling Gem
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Our Price: £7.95
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A Jataka Tale: a child of India seeks a legendary gem with the power to satisfy human needs and open the way to happiness and peace.
30 pages in full colour. For younger children.
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The Best of Friends
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Our Price: £7.95
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A Jataka Tale: being gentle and kind, the woodpecker helps the lion in time of difficulty, with no thoughts of thanks or reward.
30 pages in full colour. For younger children.
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The Rabbit and the Tigerdile
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Our Price: £5.95
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A story by W.W. Rowe.
Broadly based on a Jataka Tale, this past-life story of the Buddha explains why we can see the image of a rabbit on the face of the moon. When the god Sakra tested four animals, only the rabbit showed true compassion and selfless generosity.
In this exciting adaptation of the tale, Sakra assumes a frightening form - half tiger, half crocodile. During their jungle adventures, the selfish failings of the fox, monkey and weasel are humorously revealed.
Beautiful full-colour illustrations bring the story magically to life. It is delightful to read aloud.
30 pages with coloured illustrations. For ages 5-10
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THE MOUNTAINS OF TIBET
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Our Price: £6.99
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written and illustrated by Mordicai Gerstein.
This most beautiful little tale recounts the adventures of a small boy who grows up to be a woodcutter. When he dies, he discovers that life after death includes the opportunity to live again. Now he has to choose where he most wants to live, and what he most wants to be. This highly acclaimed and award winning children's story offers a delightfully thought-provoking introduction to the concept of reincarnation and that life and death are parts of one whole. It is beautifully and imaginatively told and the illustrations are exquisite.
Paperback; 32 pages.
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AMY & GULLY IN RAINBOWLAND
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Our Price: £3.95
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Finding themselves in Rainbowland, two children meet a magical man dressed in robes, who sends them on a strange quest for the wishing stone. Along the way, they are led to discover some special qualities within themselves. They learn to be courageous, to look beyond appearances, to do no harm, and to practice loving kindness.
Rainbowland is a place of magic and enchantment, so it may be only natural that words can do some strange things there. The witch's spells are fun to read backwards; Wobrain is a distortion of rainbow; and the reader may discover a few other surprises.
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ALL THE WAY TO LHASA - A Tale from Tibet
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Our Price: £13.95
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A memorable parable from Tibet in which a young boy and his yak bravely overcome all odds to travel to Lhasa, giving a wise and simple message that will inspire children to dream and reach for a shining goal that may seem very far away.
Beautifully illustrated throughout.
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Baby Buddhas
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CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE!
Simple guidelines for balancing family and spiritual needs, aimed at showing parents and teachers how to teach meditation to preschool-aged children. Lisa Desmond has spent years developing her methods for teaching meditation to children from eighteen months to three years old. Here, her methods are fully explained and illustrated with pictures that speak for themselves.
Testimonials from parents describe how their children: became calmer, kinder, and more thoughtful of themselves and the world around them, developed a stronger sense of self, and learned to confort themselves when feeling anxious.
"I can see her body relax, her smile appear…it is amazing to me that a child so young can access the calm strength and the feelings of safety and security in this way. I believe she has a tool for life." Mother of a two-year old.
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BAREFOOT BOOK OF BUDDHIST TALES
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Our Price: £8.99
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Key Buddhist concepts and principles are playfully explored in numerous tales from the folk traditions of India, China, Japan, Tibet and other countries. Fully illustrated.
Includes: The Living Kuan Yin; the Most Important Thing; the Man Who Didn't Want to Die; Useless Work; the Conch Maiden; the Wisdom of the Crows; Stone Ape; Where Are You Going?; Angulimala the Brigand; Learning to Be Silent; Goodheart and the Goddess of the Forest; Death of the Teacup; and the Foolish Boy.
"A beautiful book, which makes spiritually uplifting and thought-provoking bedtime reading. The language is descriptive and poetic, transporting children into another world of enlightenment and discovery." The Natural Parent.
"A joy for the eyes as well as the mind." Caduceus.
"These are stories to amuse readers for an hour or sustain them for a lifetime; they're presented here with deceptively entertaining adroitness of text and immense visual appeal. An extremely worthy book." Kirkus Review
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