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Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky

An African Folktale

written by Elphinstone Dayrell, illustrated by Blair Lent

26 pages · 2010

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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.

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