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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scholastic, 1991.Description: 26 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0590444751
  • 9780590444750
Report number: 398.2Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.26
LOC classification:
  • PZ8.1.D33
Online resources: 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.
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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.

Originally published in 1914 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.

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