The delightful stories appearing in this book are translated mostly from The Commentary on the Dhammapada. Originally published in the magazines The Young Citizen and  The Adyar Bulletin, they illustrate the moral teachings of Buddhism in a simple and easy form.

F.L.Woodward was an authority on Buddhist teachings; many of his publications were published by the Pali Text Society, among them Pictures of Buddhist Ceylon, The Buddha's Path of Virtue (translation of the Dhammapada rendered in verses), and Francis Bacon and the Cipher Story.