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Podcast: Story Time with Avant-garde Books, LLC
Episode: "The Guardian of the Pool" retold by Diana Pitcher and pictures by Tamsin Hinrichsen from Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
Description: "The Guardian of the Pool" retold by Diana Pitcher and pictures by Tamsin Hinrichsen from Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
A cause for celebration, and a landmark work that gathers in one volume many of Africa's most cherished folktales. In these beloved stories we meet a Kenyan lion named Simba, a snake with seven heads, and tricksters from Zulu folklore; we hear the voices of the scheming hyena, and we learn from a Khoi fable how animals acquired their tails and horns. Creation myths tell us how the land, its animals, and its people all came into...