How & why stories
Subtitle: world tales kids can read & tell
By: Martha Hamilton and Mitch Weiss ; illustrations by Carol Lyon.
Contributors: Hamilton, Martha.; Weiss, Mitch, 1951-; Lyon, Carol, 1963- ill.
Publisher: August House Pub.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Little Rock, Ark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Tales; Folklore; Storytelling -- Collections
Genres: Collections.
Other titles: How and why stories
Description: A collection of twenty-five traditional stories explaining why an animal or plant or natural object looks or acts the way it does. Following each story are storytelling tips and short modern, scientific explanations for the subject of the story.