Title:
A story, a story : an African tale / retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley.
ISBN:
9780689704239
9780689205118
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Atheneum, [1970]
Hartford : Connecticut Printers, [1970]
©1970
Physical Description:
35 pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
General Note:
Art techniques used: Colorful woodcut prints including African motifs.
Awards Note:
Caldecott Medal, 1971.
Summary:
Many African stories are called "Spider stories". This book is about how that came to be. And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky god. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky and went to bargain with the Sky god. The price the Sky god asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet who-stings-like-fire and Mmoatia the fairy whom-man-never-see. This book is about how Ananse paid the price.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.2 0.5 30634.
Reading Counts RC K-2 4.2 2 Quiz: 10985 Guided reading level: O.
Personal Subject:
Added Author:
Interest grade level:
Grade K-3.
Audience:
590L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocm00067571
Availability:
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