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Title:
The girl who married a lion and other tales from Africa
Author:
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
ISBN:
9780375423123
Publication Information:
New York : Pantheon Books, c2004.
Physical Description:
xiv, 189 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents:
A letter from Mma Ramotswe -- Guinea fowl child -- A bad way to treat friends -- A girl who lived in a cave -- Hare fools the baboons -- Pumpkin -- Sister of bones -- Milk bird -- Beware of friends you cannot trust -- Children of wax -- Brave hunter -- Stone hare -- A tree to sing to -- A blind man catches a bird -- Hare fools lion - again -- Strange animal -- Bad uncles -- Why elephant and hyena live far from people -- The wife who could not work -- Bad blood -- The sad story of tortoise and snail -- An old man who saved some ungrateful people -- Lazy baboons -- Great snake -- The girl who married a lion -- Two bad friends -- How a strange creature took the place of a girl, and then fell into a hole -- Greater than lion -- Head tree -- The grandmother who was kind to a smelly girl -- The baboons who went this way and that -- Two friends who met for dinner -- The Thathana Moratho tree -- Tremendously clever tricks are played, but to limited effect.
Abstract:
"Gathered here is a selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains stories previously collected in Children of War and seven new tales from the Setswana-speaking people of Botswana." "A girl discovers that her young husband might actually be a lion in disguise, but not before they have two sons who might actually be cubs. When a child made of wax follows his curiosity into the heat of daylight and melts, his siblings shape him into a bird with feathers made of leaves that enable him to fly into the light... Talking hyenas, milk-giving birds, clever cannibals who nonetheless get their comeuppance, and mysterious forces that reside in the landscape - these fables bring us the wealth, the variety, and the particular magic of traditional African lore."--BOOK JACKET.
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