Dayrell, Elphinstone, 1869-1917.

Why the sun and th moon live in the sky : an African folktale / by Elphinstone Dayrell ; illustrations by Blair Lent. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1968]. - 26 p. : col. illus. ; 24 cm.

An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.

Caldecott 1969 Honor

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Folklore--Africa.