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Black fairy tales / by Terry Berger ; drawings by David Omar White.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.B449 Bl 1969
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Terry, author.
- Series:
- Aladdin book
- An Aladdin book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Africa, Southern.
- Tales.
- Fairy tales--Africa, Southern.
- Fairy tales.
- Black people--Africa, Southern--Folklore.
- Black people.
- Folklore--South Africa.
- Southern Africa.
- African setting.
- Local Subjects:
- African setting.
- Genre:
- Fairy tales.
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [6], 137, [1] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [1st Aladdin ed.]
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum, [1969]
- Summary:
- Princes, princesses, kings, and queens wear beautiful animal skins, live in kraals, and meet fearful ogres in these ten fairy tales from the Swazi, Shangani, and 'Msuto peoples of South Africa.
- Contents:
- The moss-green princess a Swazi tale
- The serpent's bride a Shangani story
- The fairy frog a Swazi tale
- The enchanted buck a Swazi tale
- The beauty & the beast a Swazi tale
- The story of the shining princess a 'Msuto story
- The three little eggs a Swazi tale
- The rabbit prince a Shangani tale
- The fairy bird a Swazi tale
- Baboon skins a Swazi tale.
- Notes:
- "Adapted from Fairy tales from South Africa, by E. J. Bourhill."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Berger, Terry. Black fairy tales.
- ISBN:
- 068970402X :
- 9780689704024
- OCLC:
- 24091
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