Why the sun and the moon live in the sky
Subtitle: an African folktale.
By: Illus. by Blair Lent.
Contributors: Lent, Blair.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Folklore -- Africa -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature
Description: 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.
Notes: First published in 1914 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.