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A story, a story : an African tale Cover Image Book Book

A story, a story : an African tale

Haley, Gail E. (editor,, illustrator.). Connecticut Printers, (printer., Printer). Atheneum (New York, N.Y.), (pubilsher., Publisher).

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.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0689704232
  • ISBN: 9780689704239
  • ISBN: 0689205112
  • ISBN: 9780689205118
  • ISBN: 0689712014
  • ISBN: 9780689712012
  • ISBN: 9780812428100
  • ISBN: 0812428102
  • Physical Description: print
    35 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Atheneum, [1970]
  • Manufacturer: Hartford : Connecticut Printers, [1970]
  • Badges:
    • Most Copies: 4 / 5.0

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Art techniques used: Colorful woodcut prints including African motifs.
Participant or Performer Note: Narrator: John J. Akar.
Target Audience Note:
Grade K-3.
AD590L Lexile.
Decoding indicator: 70 (high) Semantic indicator: 90 (high) Syntactic indicator: 100 (high) Structure indicator: 90 (high) Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader LG 4.2 0.5.
Accelerated Reader:bGradesK-4 4.2 0.5 Quiz30634.
Reading Counts RC: O: 4.2 L590: 2.
Accelerated Reader Grades K-4 4.2 0.5 SD Quiz 30634 English fiction, vocabulary quiz available.
Awards Note:
Caldecott Medal, 1971.

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