Books with author Verna Aardema

1981 [A Puffin Pied Piper] Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale (P) Retold by Verna Aardema / Pictures by Beatriz Vidal ***ISBN-13: 9780140552522

Cunning Rabbit finds ways to get things without doing any of the work, such as drinking from a watering hole she did not help dig, but, in the end, her boasting turns against her and she learns a valuable lesson about teamwork and sharing.

Tired of Anansi's laziness, Anansi's friend Bonsu decides to play a trick on his pal during their fishing trip, in a retelling of an African tale. By the author of Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears.

An African folktale follows the son of a chief who must make his way in the world with only a sackful of kola nuts and the help of some creatures that he has treated with kindness.

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On his way to his wedding, with his friends as attendants, a civet cat meets with extraordinary and unexpected delays.

A Swahili girl is abducted by a Zimwi and told to be the voice inside his singing drum

King Gorilla decrees that no one may marry his daughter until a suitor strong enough to consume a barrel of strange, intoxicating water is found.

Overhearing a mother dove singing to her two fat babies, a bullying jackal tricks her into throwing them down to him and promptly swallows them up, but a clever blue crane comes to the rescue.

Book by Aardema, Verna

Rabbit, aided by her friends Turtle and Bush-rat, sets out to outwit Lion in order to feast on the honey in lion's calabash tree

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