Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum (Hardcover)

from regularguy5mb

Here we have a collection of African folklore tales, all but one involving animals. Of the five tales, three I enjoyed, two I really did not. Hen and Frog, Why Bush Cow and Elephant are Bad Friends, and How Animals Got Their Tails are, in many ways, similar to the Aesop tales many of us grew up w...

from AbigailAdams26

Acclaimed African-American children's author and artist Ashley Bryan - whose other folklore collections include The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales and The Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Tales - presents five traditional tales from Nigeria in Beat the Story Dr...