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Aardema, Verna

Koi and the Kola Nuts: A Tale from Liberia

32 pp. | Atheneum/Schwartz | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-689-81760-6 $$16.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Joe Cepeda. When Koi inherits nothing but a kola tree, he makes friends by giving the nuts to animals in need. They repay him when he must answer three challenges to win the hand of Chief Fulikolli's daughter. Sound effects (the crocodile lashed his tale "belong-belang, belong-belang") give the text a rich oral-tradition ring, and Cepeda's colorfully bright oil paintings offer a strong sense of place in this story previously published in Tales from the Story Hat. Glos.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

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