Go to Sleep, Gecko! : : a Balinese Folktale

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Call Number: J 398.209598 MacD, Kids Book / Picture Books / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General / MacDonald, Margaret Read
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"This story was inspired by a Balinese tale in Folk tales from Bali and Lombok by Margaret Muth Alibasah (Jakarta: Penerbit Djambatan, 1990)"--Copyright p.
Retells the folktale of the gecko who complains to the village chief that the fireflies keep him awake at night but then learns that in nature all things are connected.

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Funny and enchanting submitted by shosh.lenski on August 21, 2015, 9:39am A friend recommended this to us and we were hooked! It's funny, sweet, and a great bedtime story. Also a good reminder that we can't always have exactly everything we want in life... and there are reasons for that!

Love this book submitted by Ele Z. on June 30, 2016, 3:43am We could read it every night over and over again.
A great story to learn from.

Go To Sleep, Gecko submitted by SBNB on June 14, 2020, 12:58pm Nice book about how the world is connected, and changing one thing could have a chain reaction. My kids and I enjoyed it.