The riddle of the drum :
a tale from Tizapán, Mexico /
translated and retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Tony Chen.

Description

Main Author

Aardema, Verna.

Related Names

Wheeler, Howard True.
Chen, Tony.

Language(s)

English

Published

New York : Four Winds Press, c1979.

Subjects

Folklore > Folklore / Mexico.

Summary

Anxious to keep his daughter from marrying, a king announces that no man may marry his daughter unless he guesses the kind of leather used in a drum made by a wizard.

Note

"Translated and retold from "El aro de hinojo y el cuero de piojo" in Tales from Jalisco, Mexico, by Howard T. Wheeler."

Physical Description

[29] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

ISBN

059007489X :

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