Nine-in-one Grr! Grr!
A folk tale from the Hmong people of Laos
Told by Bila Xiong
Adapted by Cathy Spagnoli
Illustrated by Nancy Hom
Retold by the students of 2T

lko.gif (78997 bytes)In Nine-in-one Grr!Grr! Tiger goes to the great Shao because she wanted to know how many babies she would have. This story contains adjectives (describing words), nouns (a person, place or thing) and verbs (action words). The great Shao tells her she would have nine babies every year. He told her, "If you can remember my words, then you will have them. If you forget, I can't help you." So as tiger walked home she made up a little song to help herself remember. It went like this. "Nine-in-one, Grr! Grr!" But then the wise old Eu bird tricked her into saying, "One-in-nine, Grr! Grr!" So that is why there aren't many tigers on the earth today.

The End

By Kaitlin

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