Happy 85th, Rosamond V.P. Kaufman! (Adapter, "UNICEF Book of

She lives in NYC. (Or, possibly, Highlands, New Jersey or Greensboro,
North Carolina.)

Another book she helped adapt was "UNICEF Book of Children's Prayers."
There were four books (the other two had songs and poems); all of them
were compiled by her late husband, cookbook author and photographer
William I. Kaufman. (She edited and researched six cookbooks, most of
them his.)

Here's the only cover image I could find:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1007342111&searchurl=...n%3D081

Contents:

Five White Eagles - The Origin of the Sierra Nevadas de Merida
(Venezuela)

Czar Trojan's Ears (Yugoslavia - this is clearly based on the second
myth of King Midas)

Don't Be in as Great a Hurry as Your Father (Algeria)

Hatemtai (Pakistan - about charity and honesty)

The Krishna Legend (India)

The Magic Teakettle (Japan)

The Clam, the Stork and the Fisherman (Korea - very amusing)

Legend of China Poblana (Mexico - about an early 17th-century princess
from India who was sold as a slave in Mexico, created the Mexican
national costume, and is buried in Acapulco)

Christmas Flowers (El Salvador - about war and symbolism)

How Wisdom Was Scattered over the Earth to All Men (Nigeria - this
also appears in Joyce Cooper Arkhurst's "The Adventures of Spider" and
is very memorable)

The Chicken Stars (Thailand - origin of the Pleiades)

The Valley of Rest (Guatemala)

Aunty Betel Nut (Afghanistan - I recommend not reading this one aloud
- especially not to a group of kids without permission)

The Love of the Skunk (Bolivia, moon-myth)

Legend of a Child (Rwanda - I like this one)

The Giant Caterpillar (Republic of the Ivory Coast)

The Cleverest Son (Ethiopia)

The Giant Child (Peru - about St. Christopher)

How Women Grew Long Hair (Sierra Leone)

Challenge of the Sun and the Wind (Kenya - essentially a copy of
Aesop's fable)

The Temperamental Woman (Mali - another tale of dubious merit,
considering the child is 3 and not 2)

Son of the Turtle Spirit (Hong Kong - long and good)

A Sledge Ride (Denmark - clearly linked to "The Golden Goose")

Gahan Goes to Church (Malta - about a young fool)

The Foolish Hyena (Senegal)

The Walls of Jericho (Israel - not the Biblical story, per se)

Quinde, Bird of the Fire (Ecuador)

Nasreddin Hodja (Turkey - the tale of the saucepans)

The First Filipino (Philippines - you may have read this in Helen
Doss' "The Family Nobody Wanted")


On page 4:

"Because the language of a child's heart is universal, the photographs
and legends have been arranged to complement each other according to
the meaning of each and not according to the country from which each
comes."


Lenona.