Why the sun and the moon live in the sky : an African folktale / by Elphinstone Dayrell ; illustrations by Blair Lent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917.

Contributor:

Lent, Blair, illustrator.

Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.

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):

Sun--Folklore.

Sun.

Moon--Folklore.

Moon.

Water--Juvenile fiction.

Water.

Folklore--Nigeria.

Folklore.

Folklore--Africa.

Nigeria.

CHR1986.

Local Subjects:

CHR1986.

Genre:

Folklore.

Collage.

Pen and ink drawing.

Fiction.

Caldecott Medal Honor book -- 1969.

Juvenile works.

Folk tales -- 1968.

Juvenile literature -- 1968.

Publishers' advertisements -- 1968.

Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 1968.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [©1968].

Summary:

An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.

Notes:

"Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books"

Originally published in 1910 in the author's Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria West Africa.

Caldecott Honor Book, 1969.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy front cover features reproduction of "Caldecott Honor Book" sticker.

Other Format:

Online version: Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917. Why the sun and the moon live in the sky.

ISBN:

0395296099

9780395296097

0395539633 (pbk.) :

9780395539637

0395253810

9780395253816

9780590444750

0590444751

OCLC:

256483