Subira subira
Set in contemporary Tanzania, this variation on a traditional tale describes how a young girl learns a lesson in patience when a spirit woman sends her to get three whiskers from a lion.
Main Author: | Mollel, Tololwa M. |
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Other Authors: | Saport, Linda. (Illustrator) |
Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
Clarion Books,
2000.
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Subjects: |
Summary: |
Set in contemporary Tanzania, this variation on a traditional tale describes how a young girl learns a lesson in patience when a spirit woman sends her to get three whiskers from a lion. |
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Physical Description: |
32 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
039591809X |
Author Notes: |
It was not untill Mollel went to study in Canada that he realized the depth of experience related in the stories his grandfather told him. The Orphan boy is one of his best story books, it won the Canadian Governor General's Award in 1990. Mollel has also won the Writers Guild of Alberta's R. Ross Annett Children's Prize for Big Boy in 1995. He was Shortlisted for Ontario's Silver Birch Award for The Flying Tortoise in 1994, and he won the Florida Reading Association Award for Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper! (Bowker Author Biography) |