Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Schomburg Children's Collection.

Description

1. 111 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

1. Nineteen short stories feature the people and animals of Kenya.

Subject

1. Children's stories, Kenyan (English)
2. Animals > Juvenile fiction
3. Kenyan fiction (English)
4. Kenya > Juvenile fiction

Contents

1. The snake hunter and the python -- The colourful painter -- The elephant and the ant -- The pumpkin children -- Why the cricket sings -- The warthog's problem -- The young fisherman and the ngumutha -- How the hare got his short tail -- The cruel man and his wife -- Why some animals don't live in the jungle -- The old woman of the river -- Kimotho and the rainstorm -- The butterfly's children -- The foolish water-buck -- Kwaya and the chief's daughter -- The hawk and the dove -- The monkey and the hippopotamus -- The shadow of death.

Call number

1. Sc D 93-78

Author

1. Kibe, Eutychus.

Title

1. The old woman of the river and other stories / Eutychus Kibe.

Imprint

1. Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau, 1986.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Schomburg Children's Collection.

LCCN

1. 87133998

Research call number

1. Sc D 93-78