African folk tales / [edited by] Hugh Vernon-Jackson ; illustrated by Yuko Green.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vernon-Jackson, Hugh, editor.

Green, Yuko, illustrator.

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

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

Series:

Dover children's thrift classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tales--Africa, West.

Tales.

West Africa.

Tales--Nigeria.

Nigeria.

Folklore--Africa, West.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

iii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 60 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

African folktales

Place of Publication:

Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [1999]

Summary:

Presents eighteen traditional tales from West Africa, including "The Tortoise and the Leopard," "The Story of Muhammadu," and "The Magic Crocodile."

Contents:

The tortoise and the leopard

The story of a farmer and four hyenas

The greedy but cunning tortoise

A she-goat and her children

The boy in the drum

Adamu's mountain

The man with seven dogs

The story of Muhammadu

A hunter, when the world began

Koba, the hunter who stopped hunting

A rich man and his goat

The story of Mullum the soldier

A good fortune in camels

The fisherman and the ring

The magic crocodile

The contest between fire and rain

The hare and the crownbird

The medicine for getting a son.

Notes:

"Unabridged. In Easy-to-Read Type."--Cover.

"New selection of 18 stories from West African folk tales and More West African folk tales, originally published by the University of London Press, Ltd., London, in 1958 and 1963, respectively"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical note.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0486405532

OCLC:

40521201

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