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BOOKS ABOUT ABUNDANCE - ALL AGES
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Abundance of Katherines (An)  by John Green. (2006 - YA) When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. He’s also a washed up child prodigy with ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a passion for anagrams, and an overweight, Judge Judy-obsessed best friend. Colin’s on a mission to transform himself from a fading prodigy into a true genius - and win the girl. |
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Architecture of All Abundance (The): Seven Foundations to Prosperity by Lenedra J. Carroll. (2003)A combination of memoir and spiritual guidebook from the mother of singer-songwriter Jewel. Navigating the shark-infested waters of the entertainment industry, recovering from life-threatening illness, and rebounding from business failure, Lenedra Carroll has pioneered innovative principles for building success in the material world. Engaging stories deftly portray alternative ways to attain prosperity, love, good health, and a sense of purpose. |
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Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault with Fred Marcellino (illus) and Malcolm Arthur (translator). (1998 - Ages 4-8)A poor miller dies and leaves his youngest son nothing but a cat. The son is none too happy about it: "Once I've eaten my cat and made a muff out of the fur, I'm sure to starve," he says. But what a legacy the bequeathed cat turns out to be! The cat in tall boots creates a new royal identity for the youngest son— complete with fine clothes, fields of wheat, a castle stolen from an ogre, and finally, the hand of the king's daughter. |
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Puss in Boots: other books and CDs. Puss in Boots: The Adventures of That Most Enterprising Feline  by Philip Pullman. (2001 - Ages 4-8) Rabbit Ears Treasury of Storybook Classics: Volume One: Pecos Bill, Puss in Boots (2007) Puss in Boots/El Gato con botas  by Fransesc Boada. (2004 - Ages 4-8) (in Spanish & English) Puss in Boots (Step into Reading)  by Lisa Findlay with Tim Bowers (illus). (2008 - Ages 4-8)Pop-Up Puss-In-Boots  by Harold B. Lentz with C. Carey (illus). (1995) |
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SOS - SEARCHING OUT STORIES ABOUT ABUNDANCE
Advice, Discussion and References from Storytellers, Teachers and Librarians
(excerpts from Storytell posts plus original research)
Book titles and online links are in dark blue and underlined.
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Attributions and entry dates are not included prior to 2005.
Posts are listed as they are received by Story Lovers World.
1) The Farmer's Fun Loving Daughter, which is in More Ready-To-Tell Tales from Around the World
2) The legend of Why the Sea is Salt. In the end the sailor cannot get the grinder/mill to stop churning out salt because he doesn't know the secret (which in one version is to clap his hands). The captain throws the grinder overboard and tada... it is still grinding today at the bottom of the sea, churning out an abundance of salt.
The Blue Fairy Book (Dover Storybooks for Children)
Full text online:
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/bookid.948/sec.13/
http://www.longlongtimeago.com/llta_folktales_whyseasalt.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/etc/bnm/bnm40.htm
3) Nail Soup or Stone Soup. No one in the village has anything to share until they all place their offerings together.
(several versions below)
http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/stone_soup.html
http://stonesoup.esd.ornl.gov/stonesoup.html
http://www.kousi.gr.jp/kousi/syoukai/hp-siryou/stone-soup.html
http://www.storybin.com/sponsor/sponsor116.shtml
http://www.inspirationalstories.com/5/555.html
4) Hedley Kow. No matter how much or how little she has, the old woman is always happy. Because of this, her life
is abundant.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/efft/efft48.htm
http://www.story-lovers.com/listsheadlykowstory.html
http://bulfinch.englishatheist.org/efft/efft48.htm
5) A Vietnamese folktale
In the mountains overlooking the Red River Valley it is told of a good family with two fine daughters who seemed always to be doing their duties; yet one day, by and by, while returning home, they stopped to eat some figs and that evening felt very strange. In time, both sisters gave birth, one to a worm and one to a snail. The midwives fled the house, screaming, "Demons! Demons!" Everybody in the village, including the sisters themselves, shared the same fear and believed the worm and the snail to be actual demons! So they all ran away, leaving the worm and the snail to wander about the abandoned village on their own, and this they did for many lonely years. Eventually, after crossing paths a number of times, the two creatures decide to live together to ease their loneliness, and they become husband and wife. And it is soon after this that one night an incredible rainstorm flies over the village, with howling winds and raindrops that seemed to circle round their house. The next day, the snail sees a handsome man in the house. She asks him who he is, and his reply surprises her: "I am your husband." And he drops his shriveled worm skin on the floor. Later that same day the man sees a beautiful woman enter the courtyard. "My wife is not at home," he calls to her. The woman holds out a snail shell and replies, "Yes she is, for I am she." They stare at each other, bemused and pleased, and figure that there was something about the eerie storm of the previous night that has transformed them into people. And life goes on and they do their chores and farm the land. The fields are fertile and the crops grow strong and plentifully. While working together at the harvest one morning they hear two crows gabbing about local conditions, decrying the dry fields and failed crops of the next village over. The husband and wife decide to help these people out, to share their abundance with them. So they journey forth, and when they arrive they are discovered to be the very snail and the very worm whom the people of this village fled from some years ago — now transformed into ordinary people like themselves! The end result is that the villagers-in-exile, as it were, move back home and share in the abundance, and all is peachy from there on out.
http://members.tripod.com/arnobrosi/snailit5.html
6) Abuse of judicial powers in Thai folktales.
http://www.thailawforum.com/articles/abuseofjudicial.html
7) The Shoemaker and the Tsar's Daughter
http://tinyurl.com/5ej3fa
8) Folktale about a Chinese girl: Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch by Abbe, a student
http://www.germantownacademy.org/Academics/LS/5th/chinfolk/99folkh/alhfolk.htm
(Updated 12/3/05; 7/5/08; 4/19/09)
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