| The Dancing Palm Tree and Other Nigerian Folktales Contributor(s): Walker, Barbara K. (Author), Siegl, Helen (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0896722163 ISBN-13: 9780896722163 Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: January 1990 Annotation: Here are eleven beautifully illustrated tales of magical characters learning the value of courage, grace, honesty, and other virtues in the great circle of life. Included is an extensive Nigerian glossary of words and names. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - Literary Collections | African |
| Dewey: 398.209 |
| LCCN: 89027748 |
| Age Level: 8-UP |
| Grade Level: 3-UP |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 7.28" W x 9.04" L (0.96 lbs) 112 pages |
| Features: Glossary, Ikids, Illustrated |
| Review Citations: Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1990 - Recommended, Satisfactory |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Imagine yourself for a moment in Western Nigeria on a moonlit evening. The day's work has been done, and friends and neighbors have gathered. Suddenly one among the group turns to an older man sitting at the edge of the piazza. Tell us a story, he begs. And he knows what he is asking. Many in the group can tell stories and very well indeed, for storytelling has been a tradition in Nigeria for hundreds of years. The old man rises and usually begins, Far away and long ago in a small village... Somewhat in each story there is likely to be a moral, a human truth that is taught through what happens in the story, for an important purpose of storytelling in Nigeria has always been to teach as well as to entertain. But you will find that the truths taught in these stories prevail not only in Nigeria but all over the world, truths that people must learn to live by, no matter what country they call home. Earlier versions of these eleven tales were told to Barbara K. Walker by Olawale Idewu, a Nigerian student in a midwestern American college who was lonesome for his homeland and its culture and who was willing to share some of the tales from that culture. Now, young Americans can enjoy a sampling of the tales still told on moonlit evenings in Nigeria. |
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