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9780689317996

The Ox of the Wonderful Horns And Other African Folktales

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  • ISBN13:

    9780689317996

  • ISBN10:

    0689317999

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1993-03-31
  • Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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Summary

Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan presents five African folktales in this delightful, boldly illustrated picture book.

A trickster spider has his careful plan backfire, a frog and elephant team up to woo pretty girls, a calm tortoise outwits an underhanded hare, and more in these stories from Ghana, Angola, and South Africa. This beautiful picture book includes “Ananse the Spider in Search of a Fool;” “Frog and His Two Wives;” “Elephant and Frog Go Courting;” “Tortoise, Hare, and the Sweet Potatoes;” and “The Ox of the Wonderful Horns.”

Author Biography

Ashley Bryan (1923–2022) grew up to the sound of his mother singing from morning to night, and he shared the joy of song with children. A beloved illustrator, he was named a Newbery Honoree for his picture book, Freedom Over Me. He also received the Coretta Scott King—Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award; the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award; was a May Hill Arbuthnot lecturer; a Coretta Scott King Award winner; and the recipient of countless other awards and recognitions. His books include Freedom Over Me; Sail Away; Beautiful Blackbird; Beat the Story-Drum, Pum Pum; Let It Shine; Ashley Bryan’s Book of Puppets; and What a Wonderful World. He lived in Islesford, one of the Cranberry Isles off the coast of Maine.

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