The Flying Tortoise: An Igbo Tale by Barbara Spurll, Tololwa M. Mollel

The Flying Tortoise: An Igbo Tale

Barbara Spurll, Tololwa M. Mollel

32 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

fiction childrens informative slow-paced
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This humorous traditional tale from the Igbo people of Nigeria features the trickster tortoise, Mbeku, and shows how the tortoise got his rough, checkered shell as a result of Mbeku\'s greediness and cunning. "The combination of a lively narrative...

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