The Ox of the Wonderful Horns: And Other African FolktalesAshley Bryan Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley Bryan presents five African folktales in this delightful, boldly illustrated picture book. A trickster spider has his careful plan backfire, a frog and elephant team up to woo pretty girls, a calm tortoise outwits an underhanded hare, and more in these stories from Ghana, Angola, and South Africa. This beautiful picture book includes “Ananse the Spider in Search of a Fool;” “Frog and His Two Wives;” “Elephant and Frog Go Courting;” “Tortoise, Hare, and the Sweet Potatoes;” and “The Ox of the Wonderful Horns.” |
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