The riddle of the drum
Subtitle: a tale from Tizapán, Mexico
By: translated and retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Tony Chen.
Contributors: Chen, Tony.; Wheeler, Howard True.
Publisher: Four Winds Press
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Folklore -- Mexico
Description: Anxious to keep his daughter from marrying, a king announces that no man may marry his daughter unless he guesses the kind of leather used in a drum made by a wizard.
Notes: "Translated and retold from "El aro de hinojo y el cuero de piojo" in Tales from Jalisco, Mexico, by Howard T. Wheeler."