Joanna Troughton
How Night Came
Paperback
(Penguin Uk June 1, 1999)
In this tale of the Tupi Indians of the Amazon, the creation myth is altered and there is daylight but no night. Night is kept under the water by the Great Snake, but when his daughter is ill and needs some darkness, he sends her the dark, which is when all the creatures of the night are created.
- Series
- Puffin Folk Tales of the World
- ISBN
- 0140563792 / 9780140563795
- Pages
- 32
- Weight
- 5.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 0.2
in.