When author Peddar Panga was young, his parents and grandparents shared animal stories with him. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, these entertaining fables always came with lessons illustrating the universal truths of life.
Tales of the Mirrors gathers fifty such tales, rewritten with a modern audience in mind. Discover the dangers of living solely for your career in "The Royal Hyena Guard," where a hyena becomes so concerned with defending his pack's territory that he hurts those closest to him. Meet a raccoon carpenter on a campaign to cure work accidents-and a charismatic crab who fools a colony of ants.
Similar in tone to Aesop's fables and the stories of Jean de La Fontaine, Panga's stories explore personal discipline, security, the pursuit of happiness, mastery of fear, and healing. Most of all, they celebrate the enduring power of love.
Let Panga's tales sweep you away to a world where animals talk, feel, and act like humans. In doing so, they mirror the best and worst in ourselves, offering a chance to learn more about who we are and how we should act.
About the Author: Peddar Panga was born in 1974. Raised in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he immigrated to the United States at the age of thirty.
Panga graduated from Texas A&M University, San Antonio, with a bachelor of science in biology and a minor in psychology. He also attended San Antonio College, majoring in drama, nursing, and general science.
Multilingual, Panga offers interpretation services as a hobby. He speaks English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, and many other African languages. He loves travel, singing, acting, and sports, volunteers at a number of health-care facilities, and is a soccer and basketball referee.
Panga can be reached at peddarpanga@gmail.com. Letters and comments from readers are always welcome.
