The Faithful Daughter Shim Ch'ong /The Little Frog Who Never Listened (Korean Folk Tales for Children, Vol 9) (Korean Folk Tales for Children, Vol 9)

Two Korean folktales told in English and Korean. "The Faithful Daughter Sim Cheong" is about the kind, hardworking daughter of a blind man. When her father pledges to donate an impossible amount of rice to the temple to regain his sight, his daughter finds a way to make him a man of his word even though it may mean her own death. "The Little Frog Who Never Listened" is about a contrary little frog who always does the opposite of what his mother tells him, until she dies and he learns his lesson too late.I liked the first story for the devotion and sacrificial love of Sim Cheong, which is rewarded by the Dragon King and ends happily even though it could have been a very tragic story. The second is more of a cautionary tale/explanation of a natural phenomenon (why frogs croak during rain). I didn't like it quite as much. The first story is illustrated in oil pastels, a style that grew on me as the story went on. The second is illustrated in watercolors and ink in a cartoonish style. I was actually surprised to find two grammatical errors in the English in this book. I haven't found errors in any of the other books in this series, and this is the 2nd printing of the 2nd edition, you'd have thought they'd have caught those two missing words by now.