Author: Barbara Knutson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 0761357912
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Guinea Fowl and Cow are best friends. Both of them keep an eye out for Lion. When Lion threatens, each must intervene to save the other. Beautiful watercolors transform this tale into a visual delight.
How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots
Author: Barbara Knutson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 0761357912
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Guinea Fowl and Cow are best friends. Both of them keep an eye out for Lion. When Lion threatens, each must intervene to save the other. Beautiful watercolors transform this tale into a visual delight.
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 0761357912
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Guinea Fowl and Cow are best friends. Both of them keep an eye out for Lion. When Lion threatens, each must intervene to save the other. Beautiful watercolors transform this tale into a visual delight.
Perrault's Popular Tales
Author: Charles Perrault
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Sungura and Leopard
Author:
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 0822568012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A small but clever hare and a fierce leopard agree to share a house, but as the hare's family grows, he realizes that he must find a way to get rid of his bad-tempered neighbor.
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
ISBN: 0822568012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A small but clever hare and a fierce leopard agree to share a house, but as the hare's family grows, he realizes that he must find a way to get rid of his bad-tempered neighbor.
Swahili Tales
Author: Edward Steere
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846049174
Category : Fiction
Languages : sw
Pages : 518
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846049174
Category : Fiction
Languages : sw
Pages : 518
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Folk-tales of Angola
Author: Héli Chatelain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs, Kimbundu
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs, Kimbundu
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Kuku and Mwewe - A Swahili Folktale
Author: Marta Munté Vidal
Publisher: Cuento de Luz
ISBN: 8415619987
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A wonderful tale inspired by an old Swahili legend, The Chicken and the Eagle will reveal an amazing secret, and Kuku and Mwewe will live in your imagination forever. Guided Reading Level: M, Lexile Level: 770L
Publisher: Cuento de Luz
ISBN: 8415619987
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A wonderful tale inspired by an old Swahili legend, The Chicken and the Eagle will reveal an amazing secret, and Kuku and Mwewe will live in your imagination forever. Guided Reading Level: M, Lexile Level: 770L
Old Tales and New Truths
Author: James Roy King
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791408544
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This guidebook to the Bright-Shadow World develops three closely related issues. The first is the position that fairytales and folktales are of value today because they encourage the growth of capabilities important in our postmodern world. Each of us, like the fairytale hero, sets out on his/her own quests, seeks his/her own identity, faces his/her own dilemmas with few resources but wit, imagination, and a certain power of improvisation. King develops the implications of this situation for such common fairytale problems as learning to read the world productively; navigating various kinds of edges; exploiting power sources; developing highly personal moral commitments; problem solving; and data collecting. The second concern of this book is with the development of a system for analyzing narrative structure. The formula offered here involves an examination of interactions among actors, physical settings, lines of force, and power sources as a narrative moves toward its denouement. This system facilitates the classifying, and contrasting of narratives, and illuminates the structure of both narrative and lived experience. Finally, this book is concerned with myth-making or world-making processes. It is shown that traditional narrative actually points to and delineates another dimension of existence (here called the Bright-Shadow World) that operates by rules of its own and may be penetrated by individuals from our ordinary world. Inferences about the Bright-Shadow World drawn from traditional narrative are described and evaluated.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791408544
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This guidebook to the Bright-Shadow World develops three closely related issues. The first is the position that fairytales and folktales are of value today because they encourage the growth of capabilities important in our postmodern world. Each of us, like the fairytale hero, sets out on his/her own quests, seeks his/her own identity, faces his/her own dilemmas with few resources but wit, imagination, and a certain power of improvisation. King develops the implications of this situation for such common fairytale problems as learning to read the world productively; navigating various kinds of edges; exploiting power sources; developing highly personal moral commitments; problem solving; and data collecting. The second concern of this book is with the development of a system for analyzing narrative structure. The formula offered here involves an examination of interactions among actors, physical settings, lines of force, and power sources as a narrative moves toward its denouement. This system facilitates the classifying, and contrasting of narratives, and illuminates the structure of both narrative and lived experience. Finally, this book is concerned with myth-making or world-making processes. It is shown that traditional narrative actually points to and delineates another dimension of existence (here called the Bright-Shadow World) that operates by rules of its own and may be penetrated by individuals from our ordinary world. Inferences about the Bright-Shadow World drawn from traditional narrative are described and evaluated.
Practical and Systematical Swahili Bibliography ; Linguistics, 1850-1963
Author: Marcel Van Spaandonck
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Swahili language
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Swahili language
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
African Myths & Tales
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1839643102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Africa south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early written records, the continent possesses a rich body of folk tales and legends that have been passed down through the strong custom of storytelling and which often share similar elements, characters and ideas between peoples. So this collection offers a hefty selection of legends and tales – stories of the gods, creation and origins, trickster exploits, animal fables and stories which entertain and edify – from ‘Obatala Creates Mankind’, from the Yoruba people of west Africa, to ‘The Girl Of The Early Race, Who Made Stars’, from the San people of southern Africa, all collected in a gorgeous gold-foiled and embossed hardback to treasure.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1839643102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Africa south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early written records, the continent possesses a rich body of folk tales and legends that have been passed down through the strong custom of storytelling and which often share similar elements, characters and ideas between peoples. So this collection offers a hefty selection of legends and tales – stories of the gods, creation and origins, trickster exploits, animal fables and stories which entertain and edify – from ‘Obatala Creates Mankind’, from the Yoruba people of west Africa, to ‘The Girl Of The Early Race, Who Made Stars’, from the San people of southern Africa, all collected in a gorgeous gold-foiled and embossed hardback to treasure.
African Folklore
Author: Philip M. Peek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948739
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948739
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.