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Author Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917.

Title Why the sun and the moon live in the sky; an African folktale. / Illus. by Blair Lent.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1968]

Call No.CH/YA 398.2 Dayrel Why 1968
LocationMoore Children's & Young Adult Collection

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 398.2 Dayrel Why 1968    Available  ---
Description 26 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
age Children
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.
Note First published in 1914 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.
Subject Folklore -- Nigeria.
Folklore.
Nigeria.
Genre/Form Picture books.
Picture books.
Folklore -- Children's literature.
Fiction.
Fiction.
Added Author Lent, Blair.
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