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Behind the back of the mountain; Black folktales from southern Africa. Retold by Verna Aardema. Pictures by Leo and Diane Dillon.
- Text
- New York, Dial Press [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.2-A (Aardema, V. Behind the back of the mountain) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Half-a-ball-of-kenki : an Ashanti tale retold / by Verna Aardema ; and with pictures by Diane Stanley Zuromskis.
- Text
- New York : F. Warne, c1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 81-138 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Tales for the third ear, from Equatorial Africa. Drawings by Ib Ohlsson.
- Text
- New York, Dutton [c1969]
- 1969
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text E-13 9847 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.21-A (Aardema, V. Tales for the third ear) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 82-275 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Oh, Kojo! How could you! : an Ashanti tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Marc Brown.
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 85-37 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bimwili & the Zimwi : a tale from Zanzibar / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Susan Meddaugh.
- Text
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 86-32 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The sky-god stories / by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Elton Fax.
- Text
- New York : Coward-McCann, c1960.
- 1960
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 89-83 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Rabbit makes a monkey of lion : a Swahili tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney.
- Text
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 89-283 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Traveling to Tondo : a tale of the Nkundo of Zaire / retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Will Hillenbrand.
- Text
- New York : Knopf, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 91-112 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Otwe. Illustrated by Elton Fax.
- Text
- New York, Coward-McCann [c1960]
- 1960
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-13 5800 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398-A (Aardema, V. Otwe) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The Na of Wa. Illustrated by Elton Fax.
- Text
- New York, Coward-McCann [c1960]
- 1960
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-13 5799 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398-A (Aardema, V. Na of Wa) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The lonely lioness and the Ostrich chicks : a Masai tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Yumi Heo.
- Text
- New York : A.A. Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, Inc. , c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 97-247 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sebgugugu the glutton : a Bantu tale from Rwanda / retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Nancy L. Clouse.
- Text
- Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. ; Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 00-684 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jackal's flying lesson : a khoikhoi tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Dale Gottlieb.
- Text
- New York : Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 00-453 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Koi and the kola nuts : a tale from Liberia / Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Joe Cepeda.
- Text
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 00-707 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Pedro and the padre : a tale from Jalisco, Mexico / by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Friso Henstra.
- Text
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1991.
- 1991
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Hoekom lag jy, Kietoe? / oorvertel deur, Verna Aardema ; geïllustreer deur Marc Brown.
- Text
- Durbanville, R.S.A. : Garamond, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J-Xho 398.2 A Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Yini le ehlekisa kangaka Ketu? / iphinde yaxoxwa ngu, Verna Aardema ; izithombe ngu, deur Marc Brown ; ihunyushelwe esiZulwini ngu, Thembi Mini Kumalo.
- Text
- Durbanville, R.S.A. : Garamond, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J-Xho 398.2 A Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Ji-nongo-nongo means riddles / by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
- Text
- Four Winds Press, c1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.6 A Offsite The riddle of the drum : a tale from Tizapán, Mexico / translated by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Tony Chen.
- Text
- New York : Four Winds Press, c1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.22 A Offsite Yintoni Ehlekisayo, Ketu? / ngokubaliswa ngu, Verna Aardema ; imifanekiso ngu, Marc Brown ; iguqulelwe esiXhoseni ngu, Sydney Z. Zotwana.
- Text
- Durbanville, R.S.A. : Garamond, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J-Xho 398.2 A Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears : a West African tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Leo and Diane Dillon.
- Text
- New York : Dial Press, c1975.
- 1975
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 76-632 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.24-A (Aardema, V. Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Who's in Rabbit's house? : a Masai tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Leo and Diane Dillon.
- Text
- New York : Dial Press, c1977.
- 1977
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc+ F 78-92 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain : a Nandi tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Beatriz Vidal.
- Text
- New York : Dial Press, c1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 84-48 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Anansi does the impossible! : an Ashanti tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Lisa Desimini.
- Text
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Bimwili & the Zimwi : a tale from Zanzibar / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Susan Meddaugh.
- Text
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1985.
- 1985
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.21 A Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.21 A Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
More tales from the story hat. Illustrated by Elton Fax.
- Text
- New York : Coward-McCann, [c1966]
- 1966
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 11-268 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Oh, Kojo! How could you! : an Ashanti tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Marc Brown.
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1984.
- 1984
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Princess Gorilla and a new kind of water : a Mpongwe tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Victoria Chess.
- Text
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1988.
- 1988
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 88-133 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Rabbit makes a monkey of lion : a Swahili tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Jerry Pinkney.
- Text
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.24 A Offsite Tales from the story hat Illustrated by Elton Fax. Introd. by Augusta Baker.
- Text
- New York : Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, [c1960]
- 1960
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 11-270 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears; a West African tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Leo and Diane Dillon.
- Text
- Dial Press, [c1975]
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite How the ostrich got its long neck : a tale from the Akamba of Kenya / retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Marcia Brown.
- Text
- New York : Scholastic, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Koi and the kola nuts : a tale from Liberia / Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Joe Cepeda.
- Text
- New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite This for that : a Tonga tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Victoria Chess.
- Text
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.24 A Offsite Anansi finds a fool : an Ashanti tale / Verna Aardema ; pictures by Bryna Waldman.
- Text
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.24 A Offsite Behind the back of the mountain; Black folktales from southern Africa. Retold by Verna Aardema. Pictures by Leo and Diane Dillon.
- Text
- Dial Press, [c1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain : a Nandi tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Beatriz Vidal.
- Text
- New York : Dial Press, c1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Half-a-ball-of-kenki : an Ashanti tale retold / by Verna Aardema ; and with pictures by Diane Stanley Zuromskis.
- Text
- New York : F. Warne, c1979.
- 1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Tales for the third ear, from Equatorial Africa. Drawings by Ib Ohlsson.
- Text
- Dutton, [c1969]
- 1969
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Traveling to Tondo : a tale of the Nkundo of Zaire / retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Will Hillenbrand.
- Text
- New York : Knopf, c1991.
- 1991
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.24 A Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.24 A Offsite What's so funny, Ketu? / by Verna Aardema ; pictures by Marc Brown.
- Text
- New York : Dial Press, c1982.
- 1982
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Jackal's flying lesson : a Khoikhoi tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Dale Gottlieb.
- Text
- New York : Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.24 A Offsite The lonely lioness and the Ostrich chicks : a Masai tale / retold by Verna Aardema ; illustrated by Yumi Heo.
- Text
- New York : Knopf, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text J 398.2 A Offsite Behind the back of the mountain; Black folktales from southern Africa. Retold by Verna Aardema. Pictures by Leo and Diane Dillon.
- Text
- New York, Dial Press [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR350.A2 Off-site Behind the back of the mountain; Black folktales from southern Africa. Retold by Verna Aardema. Pictures by Leo and Diane Dillon.
- Text
- New York, Dial Press [1973]
- 1973
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text GR350.A2 Off-site
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