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1. Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
by Verna Aardema
Find out how Ki-pat the herd boy ended a dreadful drought. An enjoyable and vividly illustrated rhyming story.
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2. Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale
by Verna Aardema
The story of how Ki-pat ingeniously brings rain to the arid Kapiti Plain. "Cumulative rhyming tale with the rhythm and repetition of The House That ... More
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3. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
by Verna Aardema
Mosquito tells a tale that sets off a chain reaction that ends in jungle disaster: Owl refuses to hoot to wake the sun! This maniacal mosquito is one ... More
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4. Koi and the Kola Nuts: A Tale from Liberia
by Verna Aardema
When Chief Ogumefu dies, his youngest son, Koi, is cheated out of his share of they royal possessions. The only thing left is is scraggly little kola ... More
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5. Princess Gorilla and a New Kind of Water
by Verna Aardema
A picture book with a strong multi-cultural interest, retelling the story of a traditional folktale by an award-winning author, being the story of ... More
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6. Traveling to Tondo: A Tale of the Nkundo of Zaire
by Verna Aardema
Now available in paperback, this 1991 ALA Notable Book and Booklist Edtors' Choice is "vintage Aardema" (Publishers Weekly). In a rollicking Central ... More
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7. Who's in Rabbit's House?
by Verna Aardema
A Masai tale, presented in the form of a play, in which the frog gets the job of getting a monster out of the rabbit's house after the leopard, ... More
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8. Oh, Kojo! How Could You!
by Verna Aardema
Retelling of a humorous Ashanti folktale relating how a young man named Kojo finally gets the better of the tricky Anansi.
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9. What's So Funny, Ketu?
by Verna Aardema
A Child Study Association Children's Book Of The Year. "This funny story demands reading aloud".--School Library Journal. 28 full-color illustrations.
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10. Anansi Finds a Fool
by Verna Aardema
"When you dig a hole for someone else, you will fall into it yourself". Acclaimed folklorist Verna Aardema once again weaves a funny and magical ... More
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11. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in Peoples Ears: A West African Tale
by Verna Aardema, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
African folk tale which begins with a mosquito teasing an iguana whose panic becomes contagious.
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12. Borreguita Y El Coyote
by Verna Aardema
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13. Half-A-Ball-Of-Ke
by Verna Aardema
List of all editionsHalf-a-Ball-of-Kenki rescues Fly from Leopard and, in the ensuing fray, Leopard receives a spotted coat forever.
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14. The Vingananee and the Tree Toad
by Verna Aardema
List of all editionsSpider, Rat, Buck Deer, and Lion all live happily together on their farm--until the Vingananee comes and steals their food each night. No one can ... More
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15. The Riddle of the Drum: A Tale from Tizapan, Mexico
by Verna Aardema
List of all editionsAnxious to keep his daughter from marrying, a king announces that no man may marry his daughter unless he guesses the kind of leather used in a drum ... More
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16. Traveling to Tondo
by Verna Aardema, Will Hillenbrand (Illustrator)
List of all editionsOn his way to his wedding, with his friends as attendants, a civet cat meets with extraordinary and unexpected delays.
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17. Oh, Kojo! How Could You!: An Ashanti Tale
by Verna Aardema
Retelling of a humorous Ashanti folktale relating how a young man named Kojo finally gets the better of the tricky Anansi.
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18. Cn Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
by Verna Aardema
A rhyme relating how Ki-pat of Kenya's Nandi people brought rain to the drought-stricken African plain.
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19. Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion: A Swahili Tale
by Verna Aardema
List of all editionsKeeping her tummy full of honey is what Rabbit has in mind. But Lion protests. That honey comes from his calabash tree. "I'm going to eat you!" he ... More
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20. Ji-Nongo-Nongo Means Riddles
by Verna Aardema
List of all editionsPresents a collection of riddles from Africa.
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