Older Brother, Younger Brother: A Korean Folktale

By Nina Jaffe

Book Overview

After being turned out by his greedy older brother, Hungbu and his family manage to prosper when his kindness to an injured sparrow is richly rewarded.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140553347
• ISBN13: 9780140553345
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.3" x 10.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Generosity triumphs as meanness is punished

An injured bird is nursed to health by a poor Korean farmer. When he recovers he rewards the generosity of the young man by giving him rich material rewards. The evil, rich, older brother goes out and injures a bird so that he can nurse it back to health and get a like reward. Instead he gets a just reward. A similar folk tales is the Grimm Brothers ­ The Turnip, available in an edition illustrated by Kevin Hawkes.