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Title A story, a story : an African tale / retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley.
Edition First edition.


Dolores Silverstein
Dolores Silverstein
Location Call No. Status Notes
 Purdy-Kresge Library Boyce Juvenile  398.21 H137s    IN PROCESS  "Dust jacket on file."
 Purdy-Kresge Library Boyce Juvenile  398.21 H137s    IN PROCESS  "Dust jacket on file."
 Purdy-Kresge Library Juvenile  398.21 H137s    CHECKED IN
 Purdy-Kresge Library Juvenile  398.21 H137s    CHECKED IN
 Purdy-Kresge Library Juvenile  398.21 H137s    CHECKED IN
 Purdy-Kresge Library Ramsey Collection  6941    LIB USE ONLY
 Purdy-Kresge Library Ramsey Collection  13256    LIB USE ONLY
 Purdy-Kresge Library Ramsey Collection  15666    LIB USE ONLY
Description [35] pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm.
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Summary 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 and Mmoatia the fairy whom-man-never-see. This book is about how Ananse paid the price.
Audience Grade K-3.
Awards Caldecott Medal, 1971.
Subject Anansi (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction.
Onyame (Akan deity) -- Juvenile fiction.
Sky gods -- Juvenile fiction.
Deals -- Juvenile fiction.
Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction.
Leopard -- Juvenile fiction.
Hornets -- Juvenile fiction.
Fairies -- Juvenile fiction.
Folklore -- Africa -- Juvenile fiction.
Folklore -- Africa.
Added Author Haley, Gail E. Illustrator.
Connecticut Printers. Printer.
Atheneum (New York, N.Y.) Publisher.
Added Title Eloise Ramsey Collection of Literature for Young People
Dolores Silverstein Newbery and Caldecott Collection.
R. Craig Roney Collection.
Cynthia Ann Guthrie Collection
Related To Online version: Haley, Gail E. Story, a story. [1st ed.]. New York, Atheneum [1970] (OCoLC)648378486
Standard No. 2335187 30883017 39542763 41570904 237141403 663021414 733656905 774399074 870168124
ISBN 0689704232 (pbk.)
9780689704239 (pbk.)
0689205112 (hbk.)
9780689205118 (hbk.)
OCLC # 67571
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