Crocodile and hen.
By: Retold by Joan M. Lexau. Pictures by Joan Sandin.
Contributors: Sandin, Joan, illus.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Folklore -- Africa.; Animals -- Fiction.
Description: Hen so confuses Crocodile by calling him "brother" every time he is ready to eat her that disconcerted, hungry Crocodile goes searching for an explanation of how such a relationship can be.
Notes: Adaptation of Why the crocodile does not eat the hen, from Notes on the folklore of the Fjort (French Congo), by R. E. Dennett.