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Why leopard has spots : Dan stories from Liberia / Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert ; illustrated by Ashley Bryan.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PZ8.1.P24 Wh 1998 Bryan copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paye, Won-Ldy, author.
- Lippert, Margaret H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Liberia.
- Tales.
- Dan (African people)--Folklore.
- Dan (African people).
- Liberia.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bryan, Ashley (donor) (Kislak Center copy)
- Ashley Bryan Center (donor) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiii, [1], 50 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Golden, Colorado : Fulcrum Kids, [1998]
- Summary:
- A collection of pourquoi tales from the Dan people of Liberia.
- Contents:
- Why Leopard has spots
- Mrs. Chicken and the hungry crocodile
- The talking vegetables
- The hunger season
- Why Spider has a big butt
- Spider flies to the feast.
- Notes:
- "The illustrations are linoleum prints. Book design by Alyssa Pumphrey. The photographs on pages 39 and 41 [are] by Eberhard and Barbara Fischer ..."--Verso of title leaf.
- Issued in dust jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (page [45]).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Ashley Bryan and the Ashley Bryan Center.
- Kislak Center copy: dust jacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 155591344X
- 9781555913441
- OCLC:
- 38593384
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