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Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1970]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Mable goes on an impossible quest to the moon hoping that will cure her beloved Grana, and is aided by constellations associated with African and African American history along the way. Includes brief descriptions of the constellations mentioned, and a note on the myth or history associated with each.
Author
Publisher
Mantra Lingua
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Persian
Description
Mamy Wata, the queen of all the waters, hears that a horrible monster is terrorizing the people in the villages. She waits for the monster, but when he appears she finds he is a sad and lonely being. Mamy Wata makes the monster laugh and transforms him back to his true self.