Tokoloshi : African folktales retold / Diana Pitcher ; illustrated by Meg Rutherford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pitcher, Diana.

Contributor:

Rutherford, Meg, illustrator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bantu-speaking peoples--Folklore.

Bantu-speaking peoples.

Tales--Africa.

Tales.

Africa.

Bantu speaking peoples--Folklore.

Folklore--Africa.

Genre:

Folklore.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

64 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First Tricycle Press edition].

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : Tricycle Press, [1993]

Summary:

Presents retellings of seventeen African folktales, most of which are Bantu tales of southern and central Africa set against a background of Zulu family life and customs.

Contents:

First Man and First Woman (Southern Africa)

Tokoloshi (Southern & Central Africa)

The Calabash Child (East Africa)

Rainbow (Southern & Central Africa)

Dog (Congo)

Crocodile and Hare (Southern & Central Africa)

Lioness (Southern Africa)

Fire (Southern & Central Africa)

Sea, Sun and Moon (Nigeria)

Mosquito (Nigeria)

Moya (Southern & Central Africa)

Ape (West, Southern & Central Africa)

Ndhlovu

First Woman and Elephant (Southern Africa)

Hyena (Southern & Central Africa)

Honey Bird (Southern Africa)

Snake (West Africa)

Notes:

"First Tricycle Press edition, 1993."

"Originally published by Fudge & Company Limited in Great Britain, 1980"--T.p. verso.

Parents' Choice Award.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has gold sticker "Parents' Choice Award" on cover.

ISBN:

1883672031 :

OCLC:

28547716