The Greedy Crow - This story follows a crow who sees a small bird with a dead rat. The crow abandons his own meat and goes after the small bird but ends up not catching her. When he goes back to his food, exhausted, he sees that a hawk had taken it. I like the flow of this story and how it's short and simple.
The small bird was a kasaykasay, which is a bird in the Philippines that is also referred to as a southern silvery kingfisher (according to Wikipedia). It looks like this:
The small bird was a kasaykasay, which is a bird in the Philippines that is also referred to as a southern silvery kingfisher (according to Wikipedia). It looks like this:
I love origin stories, so this one about the sun and the moon was really interesting to me. If I were to re-write it, I might instead write about how both the sun and the moon shine differently (not that one shines more brightly than the other). They both have their own aspects of beauty.
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Bibliography: Filipino Tales unit. Story source: Filipino Popular Tales by Dean S. Fansler (1921).
Image Information: Southern Silvery Kingfisher, Joseph Smit - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1878 from Wikipedia.
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