The flying tortoise
Subtitle: an Igbo tale
By: retold by Tololwa M. Mollel ; illustrated by Barbara Spurll.
Contributors: Spurll, Barbara, ill.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Igbo (African people) -- Folklore; Folklore -- Nigeria; Turtles -- Folklore
Description: Mbeku, the greedy tortoise, gets himself invited to the banquet in Skyland, but is trapped with no way to get back to Earth in this Igbo tale of why the tortoise has a checkered shell.