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

Description

Main Author

Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917.

Related Names

Lent, Blair, ill.

Language(s)

English

Published

Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1968]

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.

Physical Description

26 p. col. illus. 24 cm.

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