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1. The race

Book cover for "The race".
Author:
Repchuk, Caroline
Publisher:
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date:
2006
Language:
English
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Description:
A modern rhyme retells the events of the famous race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

2. Anansi's party time

Book cover for "Anansi's party time".
Author:
Kimmel, Eric A.
NoveList Series:
Anansi books volume 5.
Series:
Anansi books volume 5
Language:
English
Formats:
Book, Book with Audio CD, Hoopla eAudiobook, Hoopla eBook
Description:
When Anansi the spider invites Turtle to a party just to play a trick on him, Turtle gets revenge at a party of his own.

3. The flying tortoise: an Igbo tale

Book cover for "The flying tortoise".
Author:
Mollel, Tololwa M. (Tololwa Marti)
Publisher:
Clarion
Pub. Date:
[1994]
Language:
English
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Description:
Mbeku, the greedy tortoise, gets himself invited to the banquet in Skyland, but is trapped with no way to get back to Earth in this Igbo tale of why the tortoise has a checkered shell.

4. When Turtle grew feathers: a folktale from the Choctaw nation

Book cover for "When Turtle grew feathers".
Author:
Tingle, Tim
Series:
LittleFolk
Publisher:
August House LittleFolk
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
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Boulder Main Childrens Nonfiction
J 398.2089973 Ting

5. Jabutí the tortoise: a trickster tale from the Amazon

Book cover for "Jabutí the tortoise".
Author:
McDermott, Gerald
NoveList Series:
Trickster tales (Gerald McDermott)
Series:
Trickster tales (Gerald McDermott)
Publisher:
Harcourt
Pub. Date:
[2001]
Language:
English
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Description:
All the birds enjoy the song-like flute music of Jabuti, the tortoise, except Vulture who, jealous because he cannot sing, tricks Jabuti into riding his back toward a festival planned by the King of Heaven.

6. How Turtle's back was cracked: a traditional Cherokee tale

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Author:
Ross, Gayle
Publisher:
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date:
[1995]
Language:
English
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Description:
Turtle's shell is cracked when the wolves plot to stop his boastful ways.

7. The land of the great turtles

Book cover for "The land of the great turtles".
Author:
Wagnon, Brad, 1979-
Publisher:
7th Generation
Language:
English
Formats:
Book, Hoopla eBook
Description:
Recounts the Cherokee myth of how the Creator gave the Cherokee people an island with everything they could ever need on condition that they take care of it and of the animals that lived there, especially the turtles, until the children, who were supposedto look after the turtles, started to ride them instead.
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