Aardema, Verna.
Summary: Anansi and his wife outsmart the Sky God and win back the beloved folktales of their people.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books For Young Readers 1997
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Summary: A tale from the Akamba people of Kenya that explains why the ostrich has such a long neck.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1995
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Summary: In this retelling of a Masai tale, a mongoose helps an ostrich get her chicks back from the lonely lioness who has stolen them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1996
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Summary: Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 1975
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Summary: A collection of twelve folktales from different parts of Africa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1994
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 398.2 AARAardema, Verna.
Summary: Rabbit has a problem - someone is inside her house and won't let her in.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Pied Piper 1979
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Summary: Adapted from a Masai folktale about a rabbit who can't get into her house because the Long One, who "eats trees and tramples on elephants," is hiding inside, this animated production is presented as a play performed by Masai actors wearing animal masks.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods Studios, a subsidiary of SCHOLASTIC Inc 1995
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Aardema, Verna.
Summary: Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 1975
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 AARSummary: Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: A tall tale sets off a chain of mishaps in the jungle. Will the jungle creatures ever get the story straight? A story, a story: Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyanme, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider Man, wanted them, and caught three sly creatures to get them. Who's in Rabbit's house?: Rabbit has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004