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FOLKTALES AND NURSERY RHYMES
Lippert, Margaret H. Paye, Won-Ldy, Reteller

Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia

32 pp. | Holt | April, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-6570-9 $$16.95
(2) K-3 Illustrated by Julie Paschkis. With no arms or legs, Head can eat only things on the ground. While dreaming of out-of-reach cherries, he meets up with two Arms who can't see. Other body parts come along, and after they sort themselves out, the newly whole person stands up and picks mangoes. This simple fable about working together is told in a straightforward text; humor is inherent in the situation. Enticing illustrations in ripe fruit colors enhance the strange, silly tale.
Reviewer: Lauren Adams | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2002

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