The heavenly zoo
Subtitle: legends and tales of the stars
By: retold by Alison Lurie ; with pictures by Monika Beisner.
Contributors: Beisner, Monika.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
Subjects: Stars -- Folklore; Stars -- Mythology -- Juvenile literature; Stars -- Religious aspects -- Juvenile literature; Stars -- Folklore; Folklore
Description: Sixteen legends of the constellations and how they got their names, taken from such varied sources as ancient Greece, Babylon, Egypt, Sumeria, the Bible, Norway, the Balkans, Indonesia, and the American Indians.