Tales from Africa

7.99 JOD

Available on: 2025-06-12 at 3:00 am

Description

Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation – including this legendary edition of Tales from Africa.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 them perfect for sharing and reading aloud to children of all ages.

Additional information

Weight 0.2 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

176

Publisher

Year Published

2025-6-12

Imprint

For Ages

9-11

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0241737931

About The Author

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.

Needs to be three times as long and sitting on a shelf in every school library

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