Only One Cowry: A Dahomean Tale

Scholastic Inc., 2000 - Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages

A clever young fellow persuades an equally clever chief's daughter to marry the king of Dahomey, and both the young man and future queen prosper in the bargain.

About the author

David Soman was born in New York and graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. He is an illustrator and also teaches courses at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Some of his published credits include Ladybug Girl and Bumblebee Boy, Splash! and Poems of Our Watery World. His awards include: Ezra Jack Keats/Unicef Award, Coretta Scott King Award, Aileen & Manuel Torres Graphics Award, Catherine Lolliard Wolfe Award, William Allan White Children's Book Award.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Only One Cowry: A Dahomean Tale; 32 p
• Illustrated by: David Soman
• Contributor: Phillis Gershator
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc., 2000
• ISBN: 0531302881, 9780531302880
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic; Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / General; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology