Why the sky is far away
Subtitle: a folktale from Nigeria
By: retold by Mary-Joan Gerson. Illustrated by Hope Meryman.
Contributors: Meryman, Hope, illus.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Folklore -- Nigeria.
Description: The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away.