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A ring of tricksters
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Virginia Hamilton |
Twelve trickster tales that show the migration of African culture to America via the West Indies. |
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Wanyana Matchmaker Frog
Legends of the World
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Lilly, Melinda.,Charles Reasoner |
A frog repays Wanyana's kindness by helping her pick the right man to be her husband. |
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The lion's whiskers and other Ethiopian tales
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Helen Siegl,Russell G. Davis |
A collection of folktales from the nine tribes of Ethiopia, along with two stories from Ethiopia's religious traditions. |
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Mrs. Chicken and the hungry crocodile
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Won-Ldy Paye |
When a crocodile captures Mrs. Chicken and takes her to an island to fatten her up, clever Mrs. Chicken claims that she can prove they are sisters and that, therefore, the crocodile shouldn't eat her. |
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Sundiata
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Will Eisner |
A retelling in comic strip form of the African epic in which an ugly, crippled child grows up to become the liberator and founder of the great empire of old Mali. |
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Spider and his son find wisdom
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Lilly, Melinda. |
While trying to gather up all the wisdom he thinks he has wasted on the villagers, Ananse the spider learns something new himself. |
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Tamba and the chief
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Lilly, Melinda. |
While seeking the village of Chief Kotombo, Tamba offers aid to the animals he meets along the way, and later they return his kindness, enabling him to marry the chief's daughter. |
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Kintu's Mistake (Myths and Legends)
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Rosalind Kerven |
Kintu, the first man on earth, passes the tests required to marry the first woman but fails to heed her warning and consequently brings death into the world. |
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Fly, eagle, fly!
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Christopher Gregorowski |
A farmer finds an eagle and raises it to behave like a chicken, until a friend helps the eagle learn to find its rightful place in the sky. |
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The tortoise and the tree
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Janina Domanska |
A retelling of a Bantu folktale that explains how the tortoise got his patchwork shell. |
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Anansi finds a fool
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Verna Aardema |
Lazy Anansi seeks to trick someone into doing the heavy work of laying his fish trap, but instead he is fooled into doing the job himself. |
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Half-a-ball-of-Kenki
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Verna Aardema |
Half-a-Ball-of-Kenki rescues Fly from Leopard and, in the ensuing fray, Leopard receives a spotted coat forever. |
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Mabela the clever
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MacDonald, Margaret Read. |
An African folktale about a mouse who pays close attention to her surroundings and avoids being tricked by the cat. |
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Lion and the ostrich chicks, and other African folk tales
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Ashley Bryan |
Includes four traditional tales told by the Hausa, Angolan, Masai, and Bushmen people of Africa. |
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A story, a story
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Gail E. Haley |
A folktale of how the African people received stories from the gods. |
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Konte Chameleon, fine, fine, fine!
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Cristina Kessler |
Konte Chameleon learns why he changes colors and discovers that doing so has certain advantages in his West African environment. |
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How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots
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Barbara Knutson |
A folk explanation for the guinea fowl's protective coloration that enables it to hide from its natural predator, the lion. |
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Anansi goes fishing
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Eric A. Kimmel |
Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs. |
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Gassire's Lute
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Alta Jablow |
An epic poem from the West African Sudan recounts the fall of the city-state of Wagadu due to a noble warrior's vanity and determination to become his people's first bard. |
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Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper!
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Tololwa M. Mollel |
A variety of animals try to help a hare get rid of the mysterious intruder who has taken over her house. |
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