Book Descriptions
for Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Five Nigerian folktales provide a humorous and forceful look at several human dilemmas. Illustrated with woodcuts.
CCBC Choices 1980. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1980. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
Five traditional Nigerian tales, including "Hen and Frog," "Why Bush Cow and Elephant are bad friends," "The husband who counted the spoonfuls," "Why Frog and Snake never play together," and "How animals got their tails."
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.