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Tales of an Ashanti father / Peggy Appiah ; illustrated by Mora Dickson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection PZ8.1.A647 Tal 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Appiah, Peggy.
- Series:
- Beacon Press night lights ; NL 4.
- Beacon Press night lights ; NL 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anansi (Legendary character)--Legends.
- Anansi (Legendary character).
- Tales--Ghana.
- Tales.
- Folklore--Ghana.
- Ghana.
- Genre:
- Legends.
- Tales -- Ghana -- Juvenile literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 156, [6] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [1989, ©1967].
- Summary:
- A collection of folktales from Ghana, centering around the figure of Kwaku Ananse, the spider man.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- How Kwaku Ananse caught the python
- How Kwaku Ananse was punished for his bad manners
- How the rat and the deer kept faith with the hunter
- The hunter and the tortoise
- The left-handed king
- Why the leopard has spots
- How Kwaku Ananse became bald
- The tortoise and the hare
- Why nephews inherit property in Ashanti
- Kwaku Ananse and the unknown assignment
- Abena and the python
- Why the lizard stretches his neck
- The bitter pill
- Why the snake has no legs
- Why the lion roars
- How Kwaku Ananse won a kingdom with a grain of corn
- Kwaku Ananse and the donkey
- Why the crow chases the hen
- The old man and the mouse
- How death came to mankind
- The gift of Densu
- Kwaku Ananse and the kingdom of the dead.
- Notes:
- "Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations."
- "First published as a Beacon Night Light in 1989 by arrangement with André Deutsch Limited, London."
- "Ages 7-11"--Page 4 of cover.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has ms. annotations.
- ISBN:
- 0807083127
- 9780807083123
- 0807083135
- 9780807083130
- OCLC:
- 18105791
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