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Author Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996.

Title The cow-tail switch and other West African stories / by Harold Courlander and George Herzog ; drawings by Madye Lee Chastain.

Imprint New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962, c1947.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Nettels Non-Fiction  398.2 COURLANDER    ---  Available
 Westside Non-Fiction  PB 398.2 COU    ---  Available
Description 143 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents Africa is many things -- Cow-tail switch -- Kaddo's wall -- Talk -- One you don't see coming -- Kassa, the strong one -- Anansi's fishing expedition -- Younde goes to town -- Singing tortoise -- Time -- Messenger to Maftam -- Guinea fowl and rabbit get justice -- Anansi and Nothing go hunting for wives -- How Soko brought debt to Ashanti -- Hungry spider and the turtle -- Throw mountains -- Ansige Karamba, the glutton -- Don't shake hands with everybody.
Study Program ACCELERATED READER RL 4.8 P 3.0 WEST
Subject Tales -- Africa, West.
Folklore -- Africa, West.
Blacks -- Africa, West -- Juvenile fiction.
Added Author Herzog, George.
Chastain, Madye Lee, illustrator.

 
    
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