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Author Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917.

Title Why the sun and the moon live in the sky : an African folktale / Elphinstone Dayrell ; illustrated by Blair Lent.

Imprint Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, [1968].

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Picture Book  PICT Dayrell    ---  Available
Description 26 p. : col. illus. ; 23 cm.
Note First published in 1914 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.
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.
Subject Folklore -- Africa.
Added Author Lent, Blair, illustrator.
ISBN 0395539633

 
    
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