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A Story A Story

A Story A Story - Hardcover

by Gail E. Haley
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gail E. Haley, Gail E. Haley (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 4-8Publish date:1970-02-01Pages:36
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9780689205118ISBN-10:689205112UPC:9780689205118Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Fairy Tales & Folklore, People & PlacesBook Topic:Country & Ethnic, AfricaAward:1971 Caldecott Medal Winner - Picture Book AwardSize:10.10 x 10.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCRKTFJPS9
Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal-winning picture book.

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 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-men-never-see. Can Ananse capture these sly creatures and give the children of earth stories to tell?
Language:EnglishPublisher:Atheneum Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9780689205118ISBN-10:689205112UPC:9780689205118Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Fairy Tales & Folklore, People & PlacesBook Topic:Country & Ethnic, AfricaAward:1971 Caldecott Medal Winner - Picture Book AwardSize:10.10 x 10.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCRKTFJPS9
Gail E. Haley is a prolific author and illustrator. Her time living in the Caribbean inspired her book A Story, a Story, and she traced the folklore she heard there to their African origins, which she studied extensively before capturing with woodcuts that she cut and printed herself. She lives and works in New York with her family, surrounded by a large collection of early children's books, toys, games, and dolls going back to the seventeenth century.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Awards

🏆 1971 Caldecott Medal Winner - Picture Book Award

Contributor(s)

Gail E. Haley, Gail E. Haley (Illustrator)

Author

Gail E. Haley

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