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Why the sun and the moon live in the sky : an African folktale / by Elphinstone Dayrell ; illustrations by Blair Lent.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1968.Description: 26 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0395539633
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.2 21
LOC classification:
  • PZ8.1.D33 Wh
Awards:
  • Caldecott Medal/Honor
Summary: 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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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
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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