The Girl Who Married a Lion: Adult Edition: Folktales from Africa
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781841956299 (1841956295)
ASIN: 1841956295
Publish date: 2004
Publisher: Canongate
Pages no: 174
Edition language: English
I loved, absolutely loved "Guinea Fowl Child".These tales are collected from Zimbabwe and Botswana, and cover a wide range for types. There are trickster tales (mostly with a hare being the trickster), just so tales (why animals do this), and family tales. Anyone who is familiar with Joel Chandler...
Captivating!This is a collection of beautiful little African stories that you can just imagine being told by an elderly lady to the children of her village as they sit in the shade of a tree on the edge of their village.If, like me, you are a fan of Kipling's Just So Stories and the Uncle Remus stor...
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