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Ganekwane and the green dragon : four stories from Africa / Corlia Fourie ; illustrated by Christian Arthur Kingue Epanya.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ7.F8254 Gan 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fourie, Corlia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories, Afrikaans--Translations into English.
- Children's stories, Afrikaans.
- Africa--Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 40 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Morton Grove, Illinois : Albert.Whitman & Company, [©1994].
- Summary:
- A collection of stories that have their origins in both the African oral tradition and the traditional fairy tale of Western Europe.
- Contents:
- Hlaulu and the beast in the forest
- The middle sister and the tree
- The girl with the laughing voice
- Ganekwane and the green dragon.
- Notes:
- "Design by Sandy Newell."
- "Text is set in Century Expanded."
- "English translation by Madeleine van Bijon."--Title page verso.
- "First published simultaneously in Afrikaans and in English in 1992 by Human & Rousseau (Pty) Ltd."--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0807527440
- 9780807527443
- OCLC:
- 29705518
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