Tales of wonder.
Contributors: Steck-Vaughn Company.
Series: Steck-Vaughn literature library; Folk tales from around the world; Folk tales from around the world (Austin, Tex.)
Publisher: Steck-Vaughn Co.
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Tales.; Folklore.
Description: A collection of folktales involving wondrous happenings around the world.
Table of contents: title: How Turtle got her shell / by Rosalind Kerven; title: How Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to dinner / (author unknown); title: Why Spider lives in ceilings / by Joyce Cooper Arkhurst; title: Why the sea is salt / retold by Virginia Haviland; title: Why the snake has no legs / by Peggy Appiah; title: Kangaroo tales: How the kangoroo got his tail / storyteller, Andrew Leku ; Why the kangaroo hops / storyteller, Nugget Jabangadi James; title: How Bear lost his tail / as told by Joseph Bruchac; title: How the deer lost his tail / by Lotta Carswell Hume; title: How Spider taught women to weave / by Natalia Belting; title: Why the parrot repeats man's words / by Harold Courlander.