A Story A Story by Haley, Gail E.

A Story A Story (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780689205118)

Vendor: Gail E. Haley
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Format: Hardcover
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A Story A Story by Haley, Gail E.

A Story A Story

$19.99
A Story A Story by Haley, Gail E.

A Story A Story

$19.99
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
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Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal-winning picture book.

Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet-who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy-whom-men-never-see. Can Ananse capture these sly creatures and give the children of earth stories to tell?

Author: Gail E. Haley
ISBN-10: 0689205112
ISBN-13: 9780689205118
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1970
Pages: 36
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 10.10h x 10.00w x 0.60d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 30634 / Story, a Story

Award: Caldecott Medal - Winner

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 02/01/2006 pg. 60
By Gail E. Haley
By Gail E. Haley
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Gail E. Haley is a prolific author and illustrator. Her time living in the Caribbean inspired her book A Story, a Story, and she traced the folklore she heard there to their African origins, which she studied extensively before capturing with woodcuts that she cut and printed herself. She lives and works in New York with her family, surrounded by a large collection of early children's books, toys, games, and dolls going back to the seventeenth century.

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