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Author Lexau, Joan M.

Title Crocodile and hen : a Bakongo folktale / text by Joan M. Lexau ; pictures by Doug Cushman.

Imprint [New York] : HarperCollins, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Nettels Non-Fiction  398.2 LEX    ---  Available
Edition Newly illustrated ed.
Description 45 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Series I can read book. Level 1
Note "Adaptation of the tale entitled 'Why the crocodile does not eat the hen,' from Notes on the folklore of the Fjort, by R. E. Dennett"--T.p. verso.
Indexed In: Wilson's Children, July 2002
School Library Journal, June 2001
Booklist, April 2001
Bulletin (Center for Children's books), July 2001
Kirkus Review, April 2001
Summary Crocodile is so confused by Hen calling him "brother" every time he gets ready to eat her that he finally goes searching for an explanation of how such a relationship can be.
Audience 2.0
K-3 Follett Library Resources
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR LG RL 2.2 0.5 GNET
Subject Folklore -- Africa.
Animals -- Folklore.
Added Author Cushman, Doug, illustrator.
ISBN 0064442632

 
    
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