Gail E Haley
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[1970]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Many African stories are called "Spider stories". This book is about how that came to be. And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky god. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky and went to bargain with the Sky god. The price the Sky god asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet who-stings-like-fire...
2) Sea tale
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A young sailor's love for a mermaid is preserved in the ring shefashions for him from a strand of her hair, but he finds himself in a dire dilemma when he remembers he has promised a lock ofhis sweetheart's hair to a mysterious old woman.
11) The green man
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
A rich, arrogant youth's enforced stay in the forest changes hisonce selfish life into a useful, generous, and satisfying one.Based on the legend of "The Green Man."
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. In a house filled with two parents, one girl, and two cats, counting has never been so much fun. Librarian Molly McGrew introduces a zoo full of animals to reading and they go simply wild about books. To avoid getting eaten, a resourceful inchworm must figure out how to measure a nightingale's song.
