Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
An African Folktale
New York : Scholastic, 1991.
Format: Book
Description: 26 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.
ISBN:
9780758701671
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C FOLKLORE Africa Day | Main (Downtown) | Caldecott Shelf - Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | Out (Due: 5/10/2024) |
C FOLKLORE Africa Day | Main (Downtown) | Caldecott Shelf - Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C FOLKLORE Africa Day | Blythewood | Children's NonFiction | In |
C FOLKLORE Africa Day | Sandhills Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
Originally published in 1914 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.
Randolph Caldecott Honor, 1969.
Randolph Caldecott Honor, 1969.