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The Princess Who Lost Her Hair: An Akamba Legend (Legends of the World) (edition 1998)

by Tololwa M. Mollel

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The efforts of a kind-hearted beggar boy bring an end to the drought that has plagued the kingdom of a haughty princess.
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Title:The Princess Who Lost Her Hair: An Akamba Legend (Legends of the World)
Authors:Tololwa M. Mollel
Info:Troll Communications (1998), Edition: 1, Paperback, 32 pages
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The Princess Who Lost Her Hair: An Akamba Legend (Legends of the World) by Tololwa M. Mollel

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  lcslibrarian | Aug 13, 2020 |
Summary: When a proud, vain princess loses her most prized possession -- her beautiful hair -- she must learn generosity from a beggar boy and all the creatures on earth.
The Legends of the World opens readers' minds to the diverse cultures of Native America, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Americas through enchanting tales passed down through countless generations. Each book in the series features geographical, historical, and cultural information. Illustrated in full color.
Teaching ESL: Introduce/discuss/explore as a class read out loud different cultural folktale. ( )
  ymartinez | Oct 17, 2012 |
Summary: This book is about a princess whohas long hair that everyone in the kingdom adores. One day a bird comes by to see the princess and ask for some of her hair to buld a nest. The bird tells the princes that she can spare some hair, but the princess becomes furious and refuses to give the bird some hair. The princess is so angry she demands the bird to leave. The bird saids he will leave, but one day you will wish that you had given me some of your hair, for when the dry season comes, you will lose your hair. The story goes on to introduce Muoma, a hungry beggar boy, who observed the incident. Muoma dreams about the bird and wanting to shot the bird with an arrow, but the bird disappears into the red sunset. Months pass and the dry season sets in, and a gust of wind takes the princess's hair. The princess hides in her chamber, scared of what the of people of the kingdom would think of her. The king tried everything to get the princess's hair back, but nothing worked. Muoma dreams of the solution and sets off on a journey to help get the princess her hair back. During Muoma's journey he gives his water to thirsty flower, his food to a hungry ant, and promises a mouse that he would save her family. Muoma continues his journey even though he was hungry, thirsty and tired. Once Muoma comes to the mountain, he sees three beautiful trees. Eac tree has a gift for Muoma. The last tree has a gift for the princess to get her hair back. Muoma follows the bird instructions to take care of the gift. He plants the the seed in the princess's garden and take care of it. Eventually the princess starts to take care of the seed. Muoma catches the princess watering the plant and explains his journey and eventually she gets her hair back. Muoma and the princess marry and the seed becomes a tree with birds nesting in it and the princess gladly gives up some of her hair to each of the nests.

Personal Reaction: I liked this story. This story teaches children that they should be happy for what they have. Also at the same time children and adults should share the bounties of their gifts.

Classroom extensions: 1. This book can be used in the classroom to discuss sharing. 2. Students can write a journal enrty after being read this book, on why it is important to share and why.
  ms150691 | Oct 30, 2011 |
This story is about a young girl who is a princess. The princess has beautiful long hair. She also is very selfish and mean. One day a bird came to play with her and she shooed the bird away. Well, a storm hit her palace and her hair disappeared. A young boy came and promised to fix her problem. Eventually the boy made her hair grow back and what more beautiful than before.
I can relate to the story because my hair is extremely long. Las year I actually cut all my hair off because my father passed away. But it has only been a year and my hair is just as long and I feel really good.
I am going to use the story in my class room two different ways. I will have the class cut and draw out a princess girl and princes and act out the story and what happened to learn how to make a paper board pup it show. I also will have the class create a really big princess out of sturdy card board paper and every day the classes will create a math problem on the back of a small piece of black paper. Well, after the students have finished and made sure the answer is correct they will tape the black pieces of paper, with the math problem showing, on the princess’s haed and at the end of the school year she should have beautiful long hair like the princess in the story.
  olive_mucho | Mar 1, 2010 |
This book is about a princess who was vain and selfish and lost all her hair and who lost her kingdom because of it. It is only because of a selfless beggar boy named Muoma who heeds the advice of the gods posing as hungry animals around him that the kingdom and her beauty is restored and saved.

I love this book both for its message of selflessness and its cultural background. It is a great way to introduce a universal message while exploring cultural diversity.

I would have the children think of a time they shunned someone asking for help and explore what they may have done differently. OR, I could have a drawing of the princess and I could have the children each draw selfless personality traits into a strand of hair. We could discuss those traits and why they are important to being a good person as we attach them to the head of our classroom princess, beautifying her inside and out!
  mexicarita | Feb 14, 2010 |
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