The Ox of the Wonderful Horns: And Other African Folktales

By Ashley Bryan

Book Overview

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."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689317999
• ISBN13: 9780689317996
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 6 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 4