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

Author: Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917.

Publisher: Boston, [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

ISBN: 0395539633 (pbk.) :

Description: 26 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject: Folklore Africa.
Folklore Africa.
Sun Folklore.
Moon Folklore.
Sun Folklore.
Moon Folklore.

Notes: First published in 1910 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.

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.

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Archer Heights Easy PZ8.1.D33Wh 1996 coll. Folktales Hardcover Not Checked Out 11/28/2012
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