Clever Tortoise: A Traditional African Tale

Title

en_US Clever Tortoise: A Traditional African Tale

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Apparent third printing

en_US Francesca Martin

Creator

en_US Martin, Francesca See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Martin, Francesca

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:03Z

en_US 2003-01

en_US 2000

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:03Z

Date Issued

en_US 2000

Abstract

en_US At Lake Nyasa in Africa, the elephant once came crashing among the other animals. That action roused the hippopotamus to show how strong he was, too. When the other animals gathered to ask what they could do, clever tortoise came up with an idea. He went to elephant and issued a challenge to a tug-of-war. Then he did the same with hippopotamus. That night the animals worked hard together to weave a strong rope. The next morning they went individually to the two and gave each an end of the rope. Here one finds perhaps the best illustrations: two facing pages of three panels each. Martin playfully shows the intensifying and frustrated efforts of each beast. At noon, tortoise cut the rope with an axe. The elephant bumped his head, and the hippopotamus smacked her back in the water. That evening, the animals held a big party to celebrate clever tortoise. The illustrative work is affectionate and colorful in this landscape-formatted book.

Identifier

en_US 0763605069 (alk. paper)

en_US 4578 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80236

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Candlewick Press

en_US Cambridge, MA

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.M368 Ck 2000 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole