The Name of the Tree
Subtitle: A Bantu Tale Retold
Contributors: Ian Wallace (Illustrator)
Publisher: Groundwood Books
Published: February 21, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780888990976
Subjects: Animal stories; Folklore, Bantu; Juvenile Folk Tales / Mythology / Fables; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction; Children: Grades 3-4; Children: Kindergarten; Nature & the Natural World - General; Fairy Tales & Folklore - Single Title; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Single Title; Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks; Animals - Turtles; Fairy Tales & Folklore - Country/Ethnic-General
First sentence: Once, long ago, in the land of the short grass, there was a great hunger.