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Hardcover:
9781847801760 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, August 1, 2010, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: As a child, Ifeoma Onyefulu was catapulted into a strange storytelling world where spirits ruled and animals talked, a world not so much about happy endings, more about learning a lesson or two.
Paperback:
9781847800114 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, June 10, 2014, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: As a child, Ifeoma Onyefulu was catapulted into a strange storytelling world predominated less by happy endings than by learning a lesson or two.
Monkey, who scratches when he itches, and Rabbit, who twitches when he feels like it, try to accept each other and themselves.
Prebinding:
9780613635523 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $12.25 | About this edition: Monkey, who scratches when he itches, and Rabbit, who twitches when he feels like it, try to accept each other and themselves.
Monkey, who scratches when he itches, and Rabbit, who twitches when he feels like it, try to accept each other and themselves.
Reinforced:
9780606274456 | Demco Media, March 1, 2003, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: Monkey, who scratches when he itches, and Rabbit, who twitches when he feels like it, try to accept each other and themselves.
Paperback:
9780486423616 | Dover Pubns, January 23, 2003, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A collection of thirty folk tales which feature the trickster, Tortoise, and other jungle animals.
While having a nice dinner together, Rabbit points out to Monkey that he canÆt stop scratching himself and so Monkey tells Rabbit that he canÆt stop his twitching, yet after a contest to see who can sit still the longest, they both come to the realization that just being themselves is simply the best way to be. Original.
Paperback:
9780439242240 | Cartwheel Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Monkey, who scratches when he itches, and Rabbit, who twitches when he feels like it, try to accept each other and themselves.
School and Library:
9780152017743 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: After hearing Ocean's stories, Sun invites Ocean to the house he shares with his wife, Moon, but his visitor proves to be more than his house can hold.
Hardcover:
9780688137830 | William Morrow & Co, December 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A boastful strong man learns a lesson harder than his muscles when he encounters one of Nigeria's superheroes in this Hausa tale which explains the origin of thunder.
Library:
9780688137847 | William Morrow & Co, December 1, 2000, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: A boastful strong man learns a lesson harder than his muscles when he encounters one of Nigeria's superheroes in this Hausa tale which explains the origin of thunder.
School and Library:
9780590483636 | Scholastic, February 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When Wind, Fire, and Rain meet in the land of the Yoruba to decide which of them is the greatest, Wind and Fire make great shows of strength, but Rain demonstrates the power of gentleness.
Paperback:
9780316308748 | Little Brown & Co, April 1, 1995, cover price $7.00 | About this edition: The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away
School and Library:
9780316308526 | Joy st Books, September 1, 1992, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away
Prebinding:
9780785767183 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away
Hardcover:
9780689313561, titled "Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum" | Reissue edition (Atheneum, July 1, 1987), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A collection of African tales, one about a man with bad habits, and three animal stories involving a frog and a hen, a cow and an elephant, a frog and a snake, and a rabbit
Paperback:
9780689711077 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, July 1, 1987), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Five traditional Nigerian tales include 'Hen and Frog,' 'Why Bush Cow and Elephant are Bad Friends,' 'The Husband Who Counted the Spoonfuls,' 'Why Frog and Snake Never Play Together,' and 'How Animals Got Their Tails.
Prebinding:
9780808592242 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: Five traditional Nigerian tales include 'Hen and Frog,' 'Why Bush Cow and Elephant are Bad Friends,' 'The Husband Who Counted the Spoonfuls,' 'Why Frog and Snake Never Play Together,' and 'How Animals Got Their Tails.
Hardcover:
9780688162313 | Morrow Junior, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Although Mbi, an orphan boy, is constantly asked to 'do this' and 'do that' by his many unkind relatives until a special tree grows, just for him
Library:
9780688162320 | Morrow Junior, June 1, 1999, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: Although Mbi, an orphan boy, is constantly asked to 'do this' and 'do that' by his many unkind relatives until a special tree grows, just for him
Although Mbi, an orphan boy, is constantly asked to 'do this' and 'do that' by his many unkind relatives until a special tree grows, just for him
Hardcover:
9780525673910 | 1 ed edition (September 1, 1998), cover price N/A
| About this edition: Although Mbi, an orphan boy, is constantly asked to 'do this' and 'do that' by his many unkind relatives until a special tree grows, just for him
| About this edition: Although Mbi, an orphan boy, is constantly asked to 'do this' and 'do that' by his many unkind relatives until a special tree grows, just for him
Hardcover:
9780195409901 | Stoddart Kids, January 1, 1998, cover price $14.95
9780395688458 | Clarion Books, August 1, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Mbeku, the greedy tortoise, gets himself invited to the banquet in Skyland, but is trapped with no way to get back to Earth in this Igbo tale of why the tortoise has a checkered shell
Hardcover:
9780688133313, titled "Why the Sun & Moon Live in the Sky" | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, May 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit
Library:
9780688133320 | Lothrop Lee & Shepard, May 1, 1995, cover price $14.93 | About this edition: Sun and Moon must leave their earthly home after Sun invites the Sea to visit
Reinforced:
9780606083829 | Demco Media, April 1, 1995, cover price $15.81 | About this edition: The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away
Hardcover:
9780531068106 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1994, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When the terrifying Iroko-man tries to take a woodcarver's first-born child as partial payment for bringing fertility to his village, the father must find a clever solution
School and Library:
9780531086605 | Orchard Books, March 1, 1994, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: When the terrifying Iroko-man tries to take a woodcarver's first-born child as partial payment for bringing fertility to his village, the father must find a clever solution
Hardcover:
9780896722163 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This collection of eleven tales from Nigeria includes 'The Boy and the Leopard,' 'The King and the Ring,' and 'The Reward of Treachery'
Hardcover:
9780811644129 | Garrard Pub Co, October 1, 1978, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Two Nigerian folktales explain why flamingos stand on one leg and why spiders are often found under stones.
Hardcover:
9780841901346 | Holmes & Meier Pub, March 1, 1974, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Book by Lindfors, Bernth
The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away.
School and Library:
9780152963101 | Harcourt Childrens Books, March 1, 1974, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: The people of Oba's kingdom treat the sky with little respect and greedily eat pieces of it whenever they feel hungry
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