On her way to visit her daughter on the other side of the jungle, Grandma encounters a hungry fox, bear, and tiger, and although she convinces them to wait for her return trip, she still must find a way to outwit them all.

This collection is one of the first and the finest attempts to compile these treasures from Bengali folk literature. It contains 22 tales.

"Today Meena and her nanu (grandmother) are having a tea party with a special Bengali tea called doodh cha, and even though Meena is impatient, she learns that it's worth the wait to make the special tea together"-- Provided by publisher.

Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flávia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat decide to showcase their talent as henna artists. In a fight to prove who is the best, their lives become more tangled--but...

Retells a traditional Bengali tale in which an old woman outwits a rice thief.

Shemonat ha-sipurim ḥoḳrim ...ʻolamam shel mehagrim u-vene mehagrim Bengalim be-Artsot ha-Berit.