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The Grateful Monkey's Secret

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 2, 3, 4, 5
Page count: 10
Categories: Folk Tale, Japanese

Author

Yoshiko
Uchida

Appeared in

The Sea of Gold

Story Summary

Kentsu, the poor wine seller, helps a trapped monkey, who gratefully leads him to a never-ending pool of wine, but the wine suddenly becomes water when Kentsu gets too greedy.