Why the sky is far away a Nigerian folktale

Title Why the sky is far away a Nigerian folktale
Names Gerson, Mary-Joan.
Book Number BR008992
Title Status Active
Medium Braille
Annotation Long, long ago, people did not have to grow crops in the fields or hunt in the forests for food. The sky was so close and bountiful that one simply reached up and took a piece of the sky to eat. And the sky tasted like delicious fruits, meats, and vegetables. But the people grew wasteful and greedy, and the sky grew angry and sternly warned the Oba that the waste must cease at once. PRINT/ BRAILLE. For grades K-3.
Local Subject Juvenile Non-Fiction - JN
Juvenile Book - JU
Short Book - SH
Juvenile Fiction - Grades K-3 - JF1
Juvenile Fiction - JF
Folklore & Fairy Tales - FOL
General Non-Fiction - GNF
Foreign Setting - FS
Audience Notes For grades K-3.
Print / Braille Books.
LC Subject Folklore - Nigeria - Juvenile literature
Call Number j398.2 JNF
Language English
Released 1992
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 1992 (National Braille Press, transcribing agency. National Braille Press, distributor)
Original Publication Transcription of: 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, c1992.
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