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Author Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917.

Title Why the sun and the moon live in the sky : an African folktale / by Elphinstone Dayrell ; illustrations by Blair Lent.

Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., ©1968.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J398.2096 DAY    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Children's Department  J398.2 D    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department  J 398.2 DAY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  CALDECOTT JJ DAYRELL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  J398.2 D    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department  JUV. 398.2 D275W    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  J398.2 DA    On Display
Description 26 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary 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.
Note Originally published in 1910 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.
Publisher's advertisement on dust jacket.
Form Also issued online.
Awards Caldecott Honor Book, 1969.
Subject Sun -- Folklore.
Moon -- Folklore.
Water -- Juvenile fiction.
Folklore -- Nigeria.
Folklore -- Africa.
Folklore. (OCoLC)fst00930306
Water. (OCoLC)fst01171139
Moon. (OCoLC)fst01240375
Nigeria. (OCoLC)fst01205229
Sun. (OCoLC)fst01245970
Folklore -- Africa.
Genre/Form Caldecott Medal Honor book -- 1969.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Folklore. (OCoLC)fst01423784
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Folklore.
Folk tales -- 1968.
Juvenile literature -- 1968.
Dust jackets (Bindings) -- 1968.
Publishers' advertisements -- 1968.
Collage.
Pen and ink drawing.
Added Author Lent, Blair. Illustrator.
Houghton Mifflin Company. Publisher.
Added Title Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.
Other Form: Online version: Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917. Why the sun and the moon live in the sky. Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1968] (OCoLC)575854347
ISBN 0395296099
9780395296097
0395539633
9780395539637
0395253810 (pbk.)
9780395253816 (pbk.)
9780590444750
0590444751
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