Story, a Story

Name: Story, a Story
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ISBN: 9780689205118

ISBN-10: 0689205112

ISBN-13: 9780689205118

Edition: 1970

Authors: Gail E. Haley, Gail E. Haley

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Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." 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 up 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…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 1970
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Publication date: 2/1/1970
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 36
Size: 10.13" wide x 10.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English