Jataka Tales

By Nancy DeRoin

Retells thirty of the five hundred tales told by the Buddha some five hundred years before the Christian era. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395202817
• ISBN13: 9780395202814
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

jataka tales- a most special book

When I was sixteen I borrowed this book from an out of town library, and drove to an old abandoned beach at a nearby lake. Alone and peaceful on a sunny fall day, I opened this book. Although I couldn't wait to turn the next page, I went slow enough to let the stories set in. They were beautiful. They were simple. They sort of...enlightened me, so to say. I stayed there for hours and finally finised the book. I was sorry it had to end. It's a shame this book is out of print...