Why the sun and the moon live in the sky : an African folktale

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Why the sun and the moon live in the sky : an African folktale

by Elphinstone Dayrell ; illustrations by Blair Lent

Houghton Mifflin, c1968

  • : pbk

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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

First published in 1914 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa

Details

  • NCID
    BA25012229
  • ISBN
    • 0395296099
    • 9780395539637
  • LCCN
    68014293
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Boston
  • Pages/Volumes
    26 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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