32 pages 978-0395539637 Ages 4-7
Keywords: Africa, folktale, multicultural, folklore, 4 year old, 5 year old, 6 year old, 7 year old, 8 year old, Caldecott Medal
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An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.---from the publisher
Editor's note: First published in 1910 in the author's Folk stories from southern Nigeria, West Africa.