Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky

Name: Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
ISBN: 9780395539637

Elphinstone Dayrell

1968·26 pages·children

Literary Fiction

folklore

Caldecott Medal (1969) · Nominee

An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.

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Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky

Elphinstone Dayrell

Caldecott Medal (1969) · Nominee

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1968

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children

Literary Fiction

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