Greedy Mariani and other folktales of the Antilles.
By: Selected and adapted by Dorothy Sharp Carter. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.
Contributors: Hyman, Trina Schart, illus.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Tales -- West Indies.; Folklore -- West Indies.
Notes: "A Margaret K. McElderry book."
Table of contents: title: How the moonfish came to be.; title: How the clever doctor tricked death.; title: Why dog lost his voice.; title: Why misery remains in the world.; title: How El Bizarrón fooled the devil.; title: Brer Rabbit's trickery.; title: The goat and the tiger.; title: Compae rabbit's ride.; title: The tortoise who flew to heaven.; title: Rabbit's long ears.; title: Brother Annancy fools Brother Fire.; title: Man-Crow.; title: Snake the postman.; title: Wheeler.; title: Malice, Bouki and Momplaisir.; title: Greedy Mariani.; title: The three fairies.; title: Juan Bobo.; title: The shepherd and the princess.; title: The miser who received his due.