High on a green mountain lived a mother with her two children — a big sister and her little brother.
They had very little, but they had each other, and that was warm enough.
The Sun and the Moon
A Korean Folktale of a Sister and Her Brother
The one to start with. A tiger in a mother's clothes knocks at the door, and two children have to see through him — which is the oldest lesson in the book and still the most useful. It ends by putting them in the sky, so the fright resolves into something a child can point at the next evening.
The rest of this story
The Sun and the Moon is currently exclusive to Kindle, so we can only show the opening here. The full text returns to this page on October 4, 2026.
When a hungry tiger follows Mother home over the hills, a brave big sister and her giggly little brother must outwit him — all the way to a rope let down from the sky. A warm, dramatic retelling of one of Korea's best-loved folktales, and how the sun and the moon came to be.
What it is about
Courage, looking after each other, and a "why" story about the sky.
Questions worth asking
- The sister keeps her voice steady when she is frightened. When have you had to do that?
- Why do you think the story explains the sun and the moon this way?