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The Adventures of Spider: West African Folk Tales

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Author(s):Joyce Cooper Arkhurst
Illustrator(s):Jerry Pinkney
Publisher(s): Little, Brown and Company
Year Published: 1964
Type: Hardcover
Softcover
Genre: African
Animal Fantasy
Folk Tales
Nature - Insects
Age Range: Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books
Pages: 58
ISBN-10: 0316051071
ISBN-13: 9780316051071
OCLC: 1309579

Description

A collection of traditional African tales about the trickster spider.

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More Adventures of Spider (1971)

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