The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780739325506 (0739325507)
Publish date: September 20th 2005
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Pages no: 304
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...