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Why The Sky Is Far Away

Why The Sky Is Far Away

A Nigerian Folktale

by Mary-Joan Gerson, Carla Golembe (Illustrator)
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
©1995, ISBN: 9780316308748
Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Current Retail Price: $7.00
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Historical Setting: Kenya

The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away.

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