The girl who married a lion and other tales from Africa
By: Alexander McCall Smith.
Edition: 1st large print ed.
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Ndebele (African people) -- Folklore.; Tswana (African people) -- Folklore.; Tales -- Zimbabwe.; Tales -- Botswana.; Large type books.
Genres: Folklore.
Table of contents: title: A letter from Mma Ramotswe; title: Guinea fowl child; title: A bad way to treat friends; title: A girl who lived in a cave; title: Hare fools the baboons; title: Pumpkin; title: Sister of bones; title: Milk bird; title: Beware of friends you cannot trust; title: Children of wax; title: Brave hunter; title: Stone Hare; title: A tree to sing to; title: A blind man catches a bird; title: Hare fools Lion, again; title: Strange animal; title: Bad uncles; title: Why Elephant and Hyena live far from people; title: The wife who could not work; title: Bad blood; title: The sad story of Tortoise and Snail; title: An old man who saved some ungrateful people; title: Lazy baboons; title: Great snake; title: The girl who married a lion; title: Two bad friends; title: How a strange creature took the place of a girl, and then fell into a hole; title: Greater than Lion; title: Head tree; title: The grandmother who was kind to a smelly girl; title: The baboons who went this way and that; title: Two friends who met for dinner; title: The thathana moratho tree; title: Tremendously clever tricks are played, but to limited effect.