| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 189 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
A letter from Mma Ramotswe -- Guinea fowl child -- A bad way to treat friends -- A girl who lived in a cave -- Hare fools the baboons -- Pumpkin -- Sister of bones -- Milk bird -- Beware of friends you cannot trust -- Children of wax -- Brave hunter -- Stone Hare -- A tree to sing to -- A blind man catches a bird -- Hare fools Lion, again -- Strange animal -- Bad uncles -- Why Elephant and Hyena live far from people -- The wife who could not work -- Bad blood -- The sad story of Tortoise and Snail -- An old man who saved some ungrateful people -- Lazy baboons -- Great snake -- The girl who married a lion -- Two bad friends -- How a strange creature took the place of a girl, and then fell into a hole -- Greater than Lion -- Head tree -- The grandmother who was kind to a smelly girl -- The baboons who went this way and that -- Two friends who met for dinner -- The thathana moratho tree -- Tremendously clever tricks are played, but to limited effect. |
| Subject |
Ndebele (African people) -- Folklore.
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Tswana (African people) -- Folklore.
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Tales -- Zimbabwe.
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Tales -- Botswana.
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| ISBN |
0375423125 |
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