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    Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears: A West African Tale

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    A Caldecott Medal winner, this retelling of a traditional West African tale reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit.

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    Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

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    The story of how Ki-pat ingeniously brings rain to the arid Kapiti Plain. Cumulative rhyming tale with the rhythm and repetition of The House That Jack Built … Illustrations are…

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    Anansi Does the Impossible!

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    How can Anansi find the hard-to-come-by items he needs to buy the Sky God’s folktales? Being a clever spider, Anansi does the smart thing: he goes straight to his wife…

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    Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico

    At last, the highly acclaimed tale of a resourceful lamb who uses her wits to outsmart a hungry coyote is available in paperback. This folk tale from the west of…

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    Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears

    Verna Aardema

    A retelling of a traditional West African tale that reveals how the mosquito developed its annoying habit.

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    Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain

    Verna Aardema

    A beautifully illustrated African tale of how Ki-pat, a herd boy, ended a dreadful drought.

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    Borreguita and the Coyote

    Verna Aardema

    At last, the highly acclaimed tale of a resourceful lamb who uses her wits to outsmart a hungry coyote is available in paperback. This folk tale from the west of…

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    Who’s in Rabbit’s House?

    A Masai tale, presented in the form of a play, in which the frog gets the job of getting a monster out of the rabbit’s house after the leopard, elephant…

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    Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears

    Verna Aardema

    A mosquito’s lie sets off a series of reactions in the jungle that results in the owl’s refusal to wake the sun and the lion’s decision to call a meeting…

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    Porque Zumban los Mosquitos en los Oidos de la Gente

    Verna Aardema

    A Caldecott classic in Spanish for the first time. A mosquito annoyed the iguana, who frightened the python, who scared the rabbit … and now the whole jungle is in…

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