- Subjects
- Genres
- Folk tales
- Published
-
New York :
Marlowe
2005.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Fifth anniversary edition
- Item Description
- "First published in 2000."--Title page verso.
- Physical Description
- 178 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781569243602
- Why hummingbird has a red throat: Olamentko-Miwok, north California coast
- The golden earring: Thoria-Orissa, India
- Raven steals the light: Inuit, North America
- The sun cow and thief: Kuttia Kondh-Orissa, India
- How Maui snared the sun: Polynesia
- How the cock got his crown: Miao-Tzu, China
- Loki and the death of light: Norse
- The pull-together morning: Sukuma, Tanzania
- Grandfather mantis and his thinking strings: !Kung San, Kalahari Desert
- The girl who married the sun: Luhya, Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
- The light keeper's box: Warao, Venezuela
- La Befana and the royal child of light: Italy.