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Moon was tired of walking on air
Title
Moon was tired of walking on air / Natalia M. Belting ; art by Will Hillenbrand.
ISBN
0395538068
9780395538067
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992.
Physical Description
41, 7 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Local Notes
BEIN 2018 3180: Dust jacket. From the library of Leonard S. Marcus.
Notes
Number line: "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" on title page verso indicates 1st printing.
Illustrated title page.
Summary
A collection of myths of various South American Indian tribes, explaining the natural world.
Other formats
Online version: Belting, Natalia Maree, 1915-1997. Moon was tired of walking on air. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1992
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 04, 2020
Contents
Moon was tired of walking on air
The Traveling sky baskets
What happened when fox opened the bottle tree
Daughter of rain
Why rainbow is bent
Why sun has a headdress and moon has none
When Orekeke wrestled tornado
Ghosts and souls
Fox and the parakeet women
Worlds above, worlds below
How Averiri made the night and the seasons
What happened when armadillo dug a hole in the sky
The Ancestors are all around us
How the birds got new beaks and men got teeth.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Folklore.
Juvenile literature.
Also listed under
Leonard S. Marcus Collection of Children's Literature (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
United States Massachusetts Boston.
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