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“It’s an enormous task, to sort all these stories and put them in books,” said one of the older sparrows. “It takes time to make a book.”
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Hatching Plans
"We now have so many stories that we can no longer keep them in our heads. We are concerned they will be lost or forgotten. How do we save them and the new stories we collect?"
Happy Diwali!
To all our readers!
New directions!
The sparrows embark on further adventures
Nirbandh
The soot had streaked her hand, she saw. As it must have streaked the hands of countless women before her, who too had placed their diyas in that little alcove.
The Tale of the Bent Old Woman, Kujo Buri
“Dear me! There goes that Kujo Buri. Buri, I’m going to eat you.”
The Sparrows Return
Just then the babblers set up a huge commotion. “They’re back, they’re back, they’re back!” they shouted all together. And sure enough, there they were, the whole flock, hurtling through the wind and rain to the old mango tree.
Whatever Happened to Kaga Mama?
“Goodbye, goodbye,” called the sparrows and off they flew.
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The Legend of the Dwarf
One day in her distress, she took an egg, wrapped it in cotton cloth, and put it carefully in a corner of her hut. Every day she went to look at the egg, until one morning she found that the egg had hatched, and in its shell sat a tiny baby boy.