Moon was tired of walking on air / Natalia M. Belting ; art by Will Hillenbrand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belting, Natalia Maree, 1915-1997.

Contributor:

Hillenbrand, Will, 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):

Indians of South America--Folklore.

Indians of South America.

Nature--Folklore.

Genre:

Folklore -- South America -- Juvenile.

Folklore.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

41, [7] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.

Summary:

A collection of myths of various South American Indian tribes, explaining the natural world.

Contents:

Moon Was Tired of Walking on Air (a myth of the Chorote Indians)

The Traveling Sky Baskets (a myth of the Apanyekra Indians)

What Happened When Fox Opened the Bottle Tree (a myth of the Chorote Indians)

Daughter of Rain (a myth of the Cayapo Indians)

Why Rainbow is Bent (a myth of the Selkam Indians)

Why Sun has a Headdress and Moon has None (a myth of the Ramkokamekra Indians)

When Orekeke Wrestled Tornado (a myth of the Teheulces Indians)

Ghosts and Souls (a myth of the Tapirapé Indians)

Fox and the Parakeet Women (a myth of the Chorote Indians)

Worlds Above, Worlds Below (a myth of the Toba Indians)

How Averiri Made the Night and the Seasons (a myth of the Campas Indians)

What Happened when Armadillo Dug a Hole in the Sky (a myth of the Cayapo Indians)

The Ancestors Are All Around Us (a myth of the Selkam Indians)

How the Birds got New Beaks and Men got Teeth (a myth of the Bororo Indians).

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Belting, Natalia Maree, 1915-1997. Moon was tired of walking on air.

ISBN:

0395538068 :

9780395538067

OCLC:

23940585