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Anansi Does the Impossible : An Ashanti Tale
Verna Aardema
Prebound - $30.95
How can Anansi find the hard-to-come-by items he needs to buy the Sky God's folktales? Being a clever spider, Anansi does the smart thing: he goes straight to his wife. Together, Anansi and Aso use their noodles to collect the needed items in this hu ...
Anansi Does the Impossible : An Ashanti Tale
Verna Aardema
Paperback - $14.95
How can Anansi find the hard-to-come-by items he needs to buy the Sky God's folktales? Being a clever spider, Anansi does the smart thing: he goes straight to his wife. Together, Anansi and Aso use their noodles to collect the needed items in this hu ...
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Verna Aardema
Paperback - $14.95
The story of how Ki-pat ingeniously brings rain to the arid Kapiti Plain. "Cumulative rhyming tale with the rhythm and repetition of The House That Jack Built . . . Illustrations are stylized, simple, and dramatic".--School Library Journal.
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain : A Nandi Tale
Verna Aardema
Hardcover - $27.95
A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.
Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion
Verna Aardema
Paperback - $12.95
Keeping her tummy full of honey is what Rabbit has in mind. But Lion protests. That honey comes from his calabash tree. "I'm going to eat you!" he roars. But Rabbit and her friends are determined to outwit the mighty dimwit. "Pinkney's soft-line draw ...
Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion : A Swahili Tale
Verna Aardema
Prebound - $28.95
Keeping her tummy full of honey is what Rabbit has in mind. But Lion protests. That honey comes from his calabash tree. "I'm going to eat you!" he roars. But Rabbit and her friends are determined to outwit the mighty dimwit. "Pinkney's soft-line draw ...
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears : A West African Tale
Verna Aardema
Paperback - $14.95
In this Caldecott Medal winner, Mosquito tells a story that causes a jungle disaster. "Elegance has become the Dillons' hallmark. . . . Matching the art is Aardema's uniquely onomatopoeic text . . . An impressive showpiece."--"Booklist, " starred rev ...
African Folktales
Roger D. Abrahams
Paperback - $29.95
Nearly 100 stories from over 40 tribe-related myths of creation, tales of epic deeds, ghost stories and tales set in both the animal and human realms.
African Folktales
Roger D. Abrahams
Prebound - $48.95
Drawing on sources from the notes of the earliest missionaries to the most recent works of anthropologists and ethnographers, the distinguished American folklorist Roger Abrahams renders nearly 100 stories which reveal the exotic, universal concerns ...
The Adventures of Spider : West African Folktales
Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Paperback - $15.95
Presents six tales about Spider, including those which explain how he got a thin waist and a bald head and why he lives in ceilings and dark corners.