The lure of the mermaid and other children's stories
By: Janet Jagan, editor ; [illustrations by Emma Greaves].
Contributors: Jagan, Janet.; Greaves, Emma, ill.
Publisher: Dido
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chichester, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Children's stories, Guyanese.; Guyana -- Fiction.; Short stories.
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: "Janet Jagan was co-founder of the Independence movement in Guyana, and served as President between 1997-99" -- Cover p.[3].
Table of contents: title: The coming of Amalivaca / Jan Carew; title: El Dorado's golden princess / Cecile E. Nobrega; title: The lure of the mermaid / Evadne D'Oliviera; title: The day the sky fell down / Henry Josiah; title: How the first people arrived on Earth / Odeen Ishmael; title: Iwokrama / story told to Paulett Allicock by Malcolm Roland ... [et al.]; title: Samaan / Doris Harper-Wills; title: Princess Sunshine's golden necklace / Sheila King; title: By the Lotus Pond / Rajkumari Singh; title: Rima, the singing bird / Janet Jagan; title: Excerpt from: Kofi Baadu out of Africa / Walter Rodney; title: The laziest of the birds / Krishna Nand Prasad; title: The legend of the Enmore Martyrs / Janet Jagan.