The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
New York : Random House Large Print, 2005.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 304 pages ; 19 cm
Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new tales from the Setswana-speaking people of Botswana.
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs . . . When a child made of wax follows his curiosity outside into the heat of daylight and melts, his siblings shape him into a bird with feathers made of leaves that enable him to fly into the light . . . Talking hyenas, milk-giving birds, clever cannibals who nonetheless get their comeuppance, and mysterious forces that reside in the landscape--these wonderful fables bring us the wealth, the variety, and the particular magic of traditional African lore.
From the Hardcover edition.
A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs . . . When a child made of wax follows his curiosity outside into the heat of daylight and melts, his siblings shape him into a bird with feathers made of leaves that enable him to fly into the light . . . Talking hyenas, milk-giving birds, clever cannibals who nonetheless get their comeuppance, and mysterious forces that reside in the landscape--these wonderful fables bring us the wealth, the variety, and the particular magic of traditional African lore.
From the Hardcover edition.
Contents:
A letter from Mma Ramotswe -- Guinea fowl child -- A bad way to treat friends -- A girl who lived in a cave -- Hare fools the baboons -- Pumpkin -- Sister of bones -- Milk bird -- Beware of friends you cannot trust -- Children of wax -- Brave hunter -- Stone Hare -- A tree to sing to -- A blind man catches a bird -- Hare fools Lion, again -- Strange animal -- Bad uncles -- Why Elephant and Hyena live far from people -- The wife who could not work -- Bad blood -- The sad story of Tortoise and Snail -- An old man who saved some ungrateful people -- Lazy baboons -- Great snake -- The girl who married a lion -- Two bad friends -- How a strange creature took the place of a girl, and then fell into a hole -- Greater than Lion -- Head tree -- The grandmother who was kind to a smelly girl -- The baboons who went this way and that -- Two friends who met for dinner -- The thathana moratho tree -- Tremendously clever tricks are played, but to limited effect.
Subjects:
Ndebele (African people) -- Folklore.
Tswana (African people) -- Folklore.
Tales -- Zimbabwe.
Tales -- Botswana.
Ndebele (African people) -- Folklore.
Tswana (African people) -- Folklore.
Tales -- Zimbabwe.
Tales -- Botswana.
ISBN:
0739325507
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LP LITERATURE McC | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Nonfiction | In |