Genre

Japanese Classics

Illustrator

Takaaki Kishikawa

Retelling

Kyoko Shimbo

3 - 4 yrs

iPad/iPhone Edition

Release Date : 2012/09/09

App Store Price : 2.99US$

Greedy Monkey finds a persimmon seed but when he realizes that Mother Crab has a delicious rice ball, he tricks her into trading by saying, “With this seed you can grow much more to eat”. Mother Crab plants the seed, which in turn, grows into a tree loaded with delicious persimmons. The time comes for Mother Crab to pick her persimmons and enjoy a feast. Monkey, has other plans for the persimmons, but his greed will prove to be his downfall.