CAMELS
- STORIES
(excerpts
from posts)
(If you want to retell any of the stories listed below, be sure
to obtain permission from the copyright holder if the material
is not in the public domain)
1)
Kipling's How the Camel Got His Hump.
2) Horse goes to Jupiter to ask that he be made even more beautiful.
Changes legs, nose and asks for built in saddle. Runs away when
he looks like Camel.
3) The Wise Camel - an Egyptian tale
- about Stork and Monkey. However, at the end it is Camel who
makes the Solomon-like decision over the ownership of the garden.
It's from a book with a tape available by Edna Mason Kaula - The
African Village Folktales, Harper Collins. The collection
gives background of the peoples and areas for each tale.
4) The Camel in the Tent - a traditional
Arab tale about giving away too much ground until you are overrun.
5) On subject of camels: don't forget the camel in the PANCHATANTRA,
which contains all those wonderful old stories from India. The
title of the story is Ugly's Trust Abused.
6) Natalie Babbitt's How Akbar Went to Bethlehem
from her book THE DEVIL'S OTHER STORYBOOK.
About why there are no camels in Hell. Not anymore.
7) CAMEL by Arnold Lobel is a lovely
story about a camel who follows her dream of becoming a dancer.
8) ALI AND THE CAMELS may be harder
to find. It's in The Sultan's Fool and Other
North American Stories by Robert Hilstrap (Hilstrop?) and
Irene Estabrook. 1958 - Ali is asked to take a caravan of 10 camels
across the desert, but he doesn't know how to count...and chaos
ensues.
9) From the old Weston Woods favorite, The
Camel Who Took a Walk.
10) A camel song by the lively Canadian group, Tiller's Folly.
11) The Man Who Counted: A Collection of
Mathematical Adventures by Malba Tahan. Edinburgh: Canongate
Pressn 1993 (originally published in Portugese in 1972) Malba
Tahan is the creation of a celebrated Brazilian mathematician.
The
camel story is Beast of Burden -
Of the singular episode of the thirty-five camels that were to
be divided between three Arab brothers. Hw Beremiz Samir, The
Man Who Counted, made an apparently impossible division that left
the quarelling brothers completely satisfied.
http://www.internettrash.com/users/jaycee/35camels.html
12) A Tale of India and Pakistan -THE GIFTS
OF WALI DAD - camels play a minor role, but camels are
one of the gifts that Wali Dad sends.
13) The Little White Camel (Mongolian).
14) The Goat Well from Fire
on the Mountain by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau (NY:
Holt, 1950). Woharia tricks a trader into buying an empty well,
by telling him it's a goat well. He leaves with the trader's camels
and grain, telling the man his name is Where-I-Shall-Dance. (camels
are minor part)
15)
Why Camels Hold Their Heads Up book.
16) Camels in the West
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/old_west/20176
(This
web page updated 8/10/03)
