week 3: extra credit reading notes

Seeger. The Five Brothers, written by Elizabeth Seeger

• Read the Chapter Sons of Pandu
• 5 boys rode to the city with their mother Kunti
• The boys have spent their entire childhood in the forest where they were born and now they are going to their father's city
• powerful sages accompanied the boys and Kunti
• the boys were sons of a past King who went to the forest to hunt but got cursed and was told he would never have sons
• the King who got cursed roamed the forest, giving up his soul and becoming a powerful sage, which lifted the curse and allowed one of his wives to have 5 sons

Illustration from book. Picture Source.