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The flying tortoise : an Igbo tale / retold by Tololwa M. Mollel ; illustrated by Barbara Spurll.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.M73 Fl 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mollel, Tololwa M. (Tololwa Marti), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Igbo (African people)--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Igbo (African people).
- Folklore--Nigeria--Juvenile literature.
- Folklore.
- Turtles--Folklore--Juvenile literature.
- Turtles.
- Igbo (African people)--Folklore.
- Folklore--Nigeria.
- Turtles--Folklore.
- Nigeria.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- [32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Clarion Books, [1994]
- Summary:
- Mbeku, the greedy tortoise, gets himself invited to the banquet in Skyland, but is trapped with no way to get back to Earth in this Igbo tale of why the tortoise has a checkered shell.
- Notes:
- "Design: Kathryn Cole."
- "First United States Publication, 1994 by arrangement with Oxford University Press, Ontario, Canada"--Verso of title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- "Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copies 1 & 2: dustjackets retained.
- ISBN:
- 0395688450 :
- 9780395688458
- OCLC:
- 31179018
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