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The Helpful Badger

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Page count: 6
Categories: Dreams, Folk Tale, Japanese

Author

Lawrence
Yep

Appeared in

Tree of Dreams: Ten Tales From the Garden of Night

Story Summary

Kitabayashi is kind enough to feed a family of badgers in a time of starvation and in turn gets some unexpected protection during a robbery.