Why the sun and the moon live in the sky : an African folktale / by Elphinstone Dayrell ; illustrations by Blair Lent.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1968.Description: 26 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0395539633
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Non Fiction | MVS Library Children's Room | G- Nonfiction (Juvenile) | 398.2 Day (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 400348 |
First published in 1914 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.
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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.
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