The Flying Tortoise
An Igbo Tale
New York : Clarion, [1994]
Format: Book
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Mbeku, the greedy tortoise, gets himself invited to the banquet in Skyland, but is trapped with no way to get back to Earth in this Igbo tale of why the tortoise has a checkered shell.
Subjects:
Igbo (African people) -- Folklore.
Folklore -- Nigeria -- Juvenile literature.
Turtles -- Juvenile folklore.
Igbo (African people) -- Folklore.
Folklore -- Nigeria -- Juvenile literature.
Turtles -- Juvenile folklore.
ISBN:
0395688450
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C FOLKLORE Africa Mol | North Main | Children's NonFiction | In |
C FOLKLORE Africa Mol | Sandhills Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
C FOLKLORE Africa Mol | Southeast | Children's NonFiction | In |