How Stories Came Into the World

How Stories Came Into the World
Author: Joanna Troughton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1989
Genre: Folklore
ISBN: 9780216926059

Once only Mouse knew, and kept to himself, the stories of how the world came to be until angry Lightning broke down Mouse's door and the stories escaped into the world.

West African Folk Tales

West African Folk Tales
Author: Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2003-04-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0486427641

Presents twenty-one traditional tales from West Africa, including "The Greedy but Cunning Tortoise," "The Boy in the Drum," and "The Magic Cooking Pot."

West African Folktales

West African Folktales
Author: Steven H. Gale
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Readers everywhere and of any age will be both entertained and instructed by these timeless stories--more than 40 tales of human foibles, magic, and nature--representing fifteen countries, including Angola, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Liberia, Ghana, and Senegal.

West African Folktales

West African Folktales
Author: J.K. Jackson
Publisher: Flame Tree 451
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781839647802

Tricksters and animals play an important role in West African folklore with stories that entertain but serve a moral purpose. Traditions and local tales revel in the antics of these characters: from Nigeria to Benin, from the cunning spider god Anansi to Agemo, the chameleon spirit deity of the Yoruba people, animals teach humans to farm, to love, to survive and thrive, and offer inspiration for moral purpose. This new collection is created for the modern reader. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and robots, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales, ancient and modern gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

West African Folk-tales

West African Folk-tales
Author: William Henry Barker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1917
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Thirty-six tales from Africa's Gold Coast, include several "Anansi tales" as well as stories about many African animals.

The Cow-Tail Switch

The Cow-Tail Switch
Author: Harold Courlander
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1987-03-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780805002980

Contains seventeen stories gathered from the Ashantis of West Africa.

A Pride of African Tales

A Pride of African Tales
Author: Donna L. Washington
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0060249293

A collection of African folktales originating in the storytelling tradition.

Anansi and the Tug o' War

Anansi and the Tug o' War
Author: Bobby Norfolk
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-12-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1684440025

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this trickster tale from Africa, Anansi proves to Elephant and Killer Whale that in a battle of wits, brains definitely outdo brawn.