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Laird, Elizabeth

When the World Began: Stories Collected in Ethiopia

96 pp. | Oxford | October, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-19-274535-2 $$25.00
(3) K-3 Storytellers will enjoy this collection of twenty Ethiopian tales collected from oral tellers and retold in English for the first time. Included are trickster tales, pourquoi tales, and animal stories reminiscent of Aesop and Grimm, all set in the Ethiopian landscape. Varied illustrations by different artists break up the text and add to the African setting.
Reviewer: Pamela McCuen

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