Why the sun and the moon live in the sky : an African folktale
(1968, original release: 1914)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
E/FOLKTALES/AFRICA/DAY
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1968]
©1968
©1968
DESCRIPTION
26 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0395296099, 0395539633, 0395253810 (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 1969 Caldecott Honor Book Award
An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them
First published in 1914 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa
570
570L
Decoding demand: 72 (high) Semantic demand: 80 (high) Syntactic demand: 96 (very high) Structure demand: 75 (high)