Sacred Stories from the British Library


Baby Isa speaks (Islam)



Hanukkah (Judaism)



Khalsa (Sikhism)



The elephant and the blind men (Buddhism)


David and Goliath (Christianity & Judaism)



The monkey king and the mangoes (Buddhism)



The Prophet Muhammed and the spider (Islam)


Nachiketa and Yama (Hinduism)


Rama and Sita (Hinduism)


Abraham and Isaac (Judaism)


Malik Bhago and Lalo (Sikhism)



The Lost Son (Christianity)






















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