Tales from Africa
$24.52
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2017
Summary
A brand new collection of African folktales for Puffin Classics.
Find out how selfish Lion gets his comeuppance, go to a Frog wedding in the Sky Kingdom, discover the days when the earth’s creatures were all mixed up and much more in these brilliantly crafted tales which reflect the very best and the very worst of human nature.
Rich in the folklore of the many different countries of Africa, Ghanaian author, K. P. Kojo brings each story to life with humour and rhyme, making the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141373072 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141373075 |
| Author: | K.P. Kojo |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Puffin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 115g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 129mm x 11mm |
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Needs to be three times as long and sitting on a shelf in every school library
Needs to be three times as long and sitting on a shelf in every school library – Mark Haddon
About The Author
K.P. Kojo
Nii Ayikwei Parkes is a Ghanaian writer and Senior Editor at Flipped Eye publishing. A 2007 recipient of Ghana’s national ACRAG award for poetry and literary advocacy, he is a former International Writing Fellow at the University of Southampton. In 2009, his short story, ‘Socks Ball’, was highly commended in the Caine Prize for African Writing, and his novel Tail of the Blue Bird (Jonathan Cape, 2009) was shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Nii Ayikwei writes for children under the name K.P. Kojo and spends his time in Ghana and the United Kingdom.
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