The Flower of Paradise and Other Armenian Tales

Bonnie C. Marshall, author, teacher, translator, and folklorist, is a museum teacher for the New Hampshire Historical Society. Dr. Marshall has established Russian programs at Davidson College and at Johnson C. Smith University, where she served as Adjunct Associate Professor of Russian and Curriculum Coordinator of the Russian Program. She has taught Russian at several universities in the United States. In addition, Dr. Marshall has taught English in St. Petersburg and Moscow at the School for Global Education and the American Academy of Foreign Languages. Her publications include the prize-winning Baba Yaga's Geese and Other Russian Stories (1973), Grasshopper to the Rescue (1979, Junior Literary Guild Award), Tales from the Heart of the Balkans (2001), and The Snow Maiden and Other Russian Tales (2004). Virginia Tashjian is a former children's librarian and author of serveral picture books and small collections of Armenian folktales.

Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Map of Armenia Part 1: Animal Tales The Tailless Fox; The Snake and the Fish; The Avenging Frog; The Invincible Rooster; The Fox Who Was Decieved; The Council of Mice; The Sparrow; The Wolf and the Lamb; Two Foxes Part 2: Myths and Legends Snake Child Otsamanuk and Arevamanuk, Who Angered the Sun; The Flower of Paradise; Seven Stars; The Sun Maiden Arev and the Fire Spirit Krag; How God Taught the Greedy Priest a Lesson; Blazing a Trail; The Blacksmith, the Carpenter, and the Farmer; The Legend about Tiridates (Trdat) III; The Mirror; Why the Onion is Bitter Part 3: Fairy Tales Little Bear; Okhik; Forty Thieves; Gambar; The Beardless Sorcerer and the King's Son; The Peasant's Son and the King's Daughter; Dzheiran-ogly, the Deer's Son; The Extraordinary Cucumber Part 4: Tales of Everyday Life The Good Deed; The Customer and the Hatter; Know-It-All Tangik; The Tale about a Lazy Man; Don't Overstay Your Visit; The Search for a Lumma (Penny); You Reap What You Sow; The Greedy Priest; Lazy Tiuni and Uri the Slug; The Pitcher of Gold; Lazy Hoory; Four Amusing Tales: The Greatest Sorrow in the World; The Deaf Man, the Cripple, and the Bald Man; God, You Didn't Understand Me; The Peasant and His Roof Part 5: Wits and Dimwits The Golden Apple; The Master and the Hired Man; The Shoemaker's Debt; When My Heart Tells Me; The Donkey That Swallowed the Moon; The Ne'er-Do-Well Son; Death or Freedom; A Tall, Tall Tale; Brother Ax; Carnival; Two Brothers; The Adventures of Silly Pugi: Silly Pugi and the Egg-Hatching Persians; Three Brothers Bring a Complaint to Silly Pugi; Silly Pugi and His Friend; Silly Pugi and the Teacher; Pugi and His Wife; The Raven; Pugi and His Neighbor Appendix A: Armenian Cuisine Appendix B: Glossary Bibliography Recommended Readings Index