Subject: Folklore › Africa

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• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale by Verna Aardema (847 copies)
• Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott (451 copies)
• A Story, a Story by Gail E. Haley (210 copies)
• Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley (192 copies)
• Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel (176 copies)
• Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky by Elphinstone Dayrell (166 copies)
• The Adventures of Spider by Joyce Cooper Arkhurst (99 copies)
• Zomo the Rabbit by Gerald McDermott (94 copies)
• Anansi and the Talking Melon by Eric A. Kimmel (83 copies)
• The Heart of the Hunter: Customs and Myths of the African… by Laurens van der Post (79 copies)
• Favorite African Folktales by Nelson Mandela (77 copies)
• A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature,… by Harold Courlander (72 copies)
• Two Ways to Count to Ten: A Liberian Folktale by Ruby Dee (71 copies)
• The Hunterman and the Crocodile: A West African Folktale by Baba Wagué. Diakité (64 copies)
• Anansi Does The Impossible!: An Ashanti Tale by Verna Aardema (59 copies)
• How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have?: And Other Tales by Julius Lester (57 copies)
• Who's in Rabbit's House? by Verna Aardema (48 copies)
• Talk Talk - Pbk (Legends of the World) by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate (44 copies)
• A Ring of Tricksters : Animal Tales from America, the West… by Virginia Hamilton (41 copies)
• Anansi Goes Fishing by Eric A. Kimmel (40 copies)
• The Orphan Boy by Tololwa M. Mollel (37 copies)
• Black Folktales by Julius Lester (36 copies)
• When Hippo Was Hairy by Nick Greaves (35 copies)
• Mabela the Clever by Margaret Read MacDonald (33 copies)
• Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial… by Luise White (28 copies)
• African Folk Tales (Dover Children's Thrift Classics) by Hugh Vernon-Jackson (27 copies)
• The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks by Verna Aardema (24 copies)
• How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots by Barbara Knutson (24 copies)
• African Myths and Legends (Oxford Myths and Legends) by Kathleen Arnott (22 copies)
• How Giraffe Got Such A Long Neck...and Why Rhino is So… by Michael Rosen (21 copies)
• African Genesis by Leo Frobenius (21 copies)
• How Spiders Got Eight Legs (Steck-Vaughn Pair-It Book,… by Katherine Mead (20 copies)
• The Name of the Tree: A Bantu Tale Retold by Celia Barker Lottridge (20 copies)
• Too Much Talk: A West African Folktale by Angela Shelf Medearis (19 copies)
• Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper! by Tololwa M. Mollel (18 copies)
• The Singing Man: Adapted from a West African Folktale by Angela Shelf Medearis (17 copies)
• A Pride of African Tales by Donna L. Washington (17 copies)
• Lion and the Ostrich Chicks by Ashley Bryan (14 copies)
• Imani In The Belly by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate (14 copies)
• I Am Not Afraid (Bank Street Level 2*) by Kenny Mann (12 copies)
• The Trickster in West Africa: A Study of Mythic Irony and… by Robert D. Pelton (11 copies)
• When the drum sang; an African folktale by Anne Rockwell (10 copies)
• Zzzng!, Zzzng!, Zzzng!: A Yoruba Tale (Venture-Health & the… by Phillis Gershator (10 copies)
• Tales from Africa by Kathleen Arnott (9 copies)
• The Hunter Who Was King and Other African Tales by Bernette G. Ford (9 copies)
• Ashley Bryan's African Tales, Uh-Huh by Ashley Bryan (8 copies)
• The Origin of Life on Earth: An African Creation Myth by David A. Anderson (7 copies)
• African Folklore by Editor Richard M. Dorson (6 copies)
• Fire Came to the Earth People: A Dahomean Foltale by Susan L. Roth (6 copies)
• Anansi and the Box of Stories: A West African Folktale (On… by Stephen Krensky (6 copies)

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