Author: Marlene Newman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781841484969
Category : Cows
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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While performing his most despised chore--running to the store for his mother--Myron acquires a magical cow and makes a special wish.

Author: Hope Meryman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780590102605
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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A poor man repeatedly loses his magic animals through the trickery of his friend.

Author: Phyllis Root
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 9780763620035
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Annalisa, the most curious and stubborn of Mama May's children, disobeys her mother and upsets the family cow by refusing to kiss her in return for the milk she gives.

Author: Deborah Chancellor
Publisher: Follow My Food
ISBN: 9781915252135
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Age range 3+ A child follows a day in the life of Milly the cow, as she munches grass with her friends, drinks gallons of water, makes cow pats in the field, and visits the milking parlour with her farmer. Milly's milk is made into butter, cheese and yoghurt.

Author: Odeen Ishmael
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453539050
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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This book comprises a collection of popular folk stories from Guyana and other countries of the Caribbean region. The starring character in all of them is Nansi whose exploits form part of the folklore of these countries. Nansi, the starring character in all the stories, is also popularly known as Anansi. But in Guyana and some other Caribbean countries, Nansi, the shortened form of this name, is usually preferred. Nansi, who is a spiderbut who sometimes takes the qualities or form of a man, or even half-man and half-spideris originally the chief trickster among the Ashanti and Akan peoples of West Africa. When some of these peoples were forcibly brought to the Caribbean and the American continent as slaves from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, they also brought with them the tales of the exploits of Nansi, who was, and still is, variably regarded as a folk hero, a cunning trickster and also sometimes as a fool. The stories in this book are no different to the ones told in West Africa or other parts of the Caribbean and the south-east United States, even though the plots and the characters involved may vary slightly. They certainly provide tangible evidence that much of the oral traditions of people of African origin in the Americas remain intact, despite the historical trauma caused by centuries of slavery. Nansi is always outwitting the forest creatures, humans, his own family, the community in which he lives, and sometimes even deities. His character assumes various patterns. In some cases he is regarded as wise, but he can be greedy, cunning, gluttonous, stupid and dishonest. Despite these varying characteristics, Nansi is generally admired for the manner in which he outwits others. In Guyana and other countries of the English-speaking Caribbean, particularly in rural areas, the exploits of Nansi are related by older people as a form of entertainment at wakes and other community gatherings. The stories are now no longer exclusive to people of West African ancestry, since people of all ethnic origins in the these countries regard Nansi as their folk hero as well. Interestingly, all stories told at these informal community gatherings are regarded as Nansi stories even though Nansi may not be a character in any of them. The tales of Nansi are very imaginative and they are so embedded in the minds of people of Guyana and the Caribbean that sometimes any story that is far-fetched and hard to believe is dismissed as a Nansi story.

Author: Marie Campbell
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820321868
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the "ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek myths, the tales had been handed down through generations of telling before Marie Campbell collected them in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Readers will recognize the story of Snow White in "A Stepchild That Was Treated Mighty Bad," while "Three Shirts and a Golden Finger Ring" recalls the fairy tale of the Seven Swans. "The Fellow That Married A Dozen Times" is a lively rendition of "Bluebeard." As the narrators cautioned Marie Campbell again and again, "Tale-telling is nigh about faded out in the mountain country," but Tales from the Cloud Walking Country offers a lasting record of history, cultural heritage, language, and good old-fashioned fun.

Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120803862
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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This work deals at length with various theories about relgion prevalent at the time when Megasthenes visited India very interesting and scholarly views have been put forth regarding investigations of Megasthenes their reliability and the reliability of his reporters.

Author: Mike Litwin
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807587230
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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When Chuck and Dakota find a magic seashell complete with a wish-granting genie inside, their first wish is for a never-ending supply of chocolate-covered bananas. But when Dakota wishes to become a REAL cow so he doesn't have to wear his cowmouflage anymore, things get messy and the residents of Bermooda mistake him as an imposter! The boys soon discover that the magic seashell is having some fun with them by creating panic and havoc across the island. Can Chuck and Dakota work together to get everything back to normal before all the cows go mad?

Author: Janet Stevens
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823427102
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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Ruff! Ruff! Yip! Yip! Dog is rounding up whatever he can find in his urban apartment, even chairs. He is also driving his bird companion crazy with the commotion. Bird sends him to the countryside to find something more appropriate to herd, such as a cow. but since Dog has never seen a cow, he finds all the wrong animals. After being pecked by a chicken, spattered with mud by a pig, and walloped by a donkey, Dog needs a friend. By chance a mysterious and kindly animal helps lead him back to the city, only to cause chaos there, before revealing her identity -- as a cow!

Author: Denvil Mullins
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9781570720406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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With more cut up, back talk, and dander raising than you can wag a dog at, Teed Cornfield and the rest of the Coaley Creek crowd are once more dashing full tilt into all sorts of mischief and adventure. This fourth in a series about life in the Appalachian Mountains will tickle you funny till your ears turn red.