The Ox of the Wonderful Horns And Other African Folktales |
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| Author:
| Bryan, Ashley |
| Illustrator:
| Bryan, Ashley |
| ISBN: | 978-0-689-31799-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1993 |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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| Imprint: | Atheneum Books for Young Readers |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $21.80 |
Book Description:
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Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan presents five African folktales in this delightful, boldly illustrated picture book. A trickster spider has his careful plan backfire, a frog and elephant team up to woo pretty girls, a calm tortoise outwits an underhanded hare, and more in these stories from Ghana, Angola, and South Africa. This beautiful picture book includes "Ananse the Spider in Search of a Fool;" "Frog and His Two Wives;" "Elephant and Frog Go...
More Description Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan presents five African folktales in this delightful, boldly illustrated picture book.
A trickster spider has his careful plan backfire, a frog and elephant team up to woo pretty girls, a calm tortoise outwits an underhanded hare, and more in these stories from Ghana, Angola, and South Africa. This beautiful picture book includes "Ananse the Spider in Search of a Fool;" "Frog and His Two Wives;" "Elephant and Frog Go Courting;" "Tortoise, Hare, and the Sweet Potatoes;" and "The Ox of the Wonderful Horns."