African and African American Folktales

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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales 4.30 avg rating — 1,674 ratings
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Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales 4.39 avg rating — 619 ratings
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John Henry
John Henry 4.24 avg rating — 4,041 ratings
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The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book 4.38 avg rating — 827 ratings
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The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales
The Black Cloth: A Collection of African Folktales 3.53 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti
Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti 4.12 avg rating — 7,287 ratings
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Black Folktales
Black Folktales 4.05 avg rating — 151 ratings
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African Folktales
African Folktales 3.76 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Children of Wax: African Folk Tales
Children of Wax: African Folk Tales 3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Old African
The Old African 4.29 avg rating — 110 ratings
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African Myths of Origin
African Myths of Origin
by: Anonymous
3.77 avg rating — 160 ratings
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African Folk Tales
African Folk Tales 3.73 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales 3.91 avg rating — 1,615 ratings
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How Anansi Obtained the Sky God's Stories
How Anansi Obtained the Sky God's Stories 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Dinka Folktales: African Stories from the Sudan
Dinka Folktales: African Stories from the Sudan 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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African American Folktales
African American Folktales 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Ade and The Giants of the East
Ade and The Giants of the East 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Jumbies (The Jumbies, #1)
The Jumbies (The Jumbies, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 5,603 ratings
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The Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales
The Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales 4.01 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Moral Lessons in African Folktales
Moral Lessons in African Folktales 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa 3.85 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale
The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale 3.84 avg rating — 77 ratings
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East African Folktales
East African Folktales 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Wakaima and the Clay Man and Other African Folktales
Wakaima and the Clay Man and Other African Folktales really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Tales of Yoruba Gods & Heroes
Tales of Yoruba Gods & Heroes really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings
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African Folktales in the New World
African Folktales in the New World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Zanzibar Tales Told By Natives Of The East Coast Of Africa
Zanzibar Tales Told By Natives Of The East Coast Of Africa 3.50 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa
The Girl Who Married a Lion and Other Tales from Africa 3.47 avg rating — 2,195 ratings
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Indaba My Children
Indaba My Children 4.41 avg rating — 436 ratings
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African Folktales
African Folktales 3.84 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States 3.98 avg rating — 751 ratings
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The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories
The Cow-Tail Switch and Other West African Stories 3.69 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa 4.33 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales
The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Plays from African Folktales
Plays from African Folktales 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Wooden Gongs And Drumbeats: African Folktales, Proverbs And Idioms
Wooden Gongs And Drumbeats: African Folktales, Proverbs And Idioms 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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African Folktales
African Folktales 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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West African Folktales
West African Folktales really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Tokoloshi: African Folktales Retold
Tokoloshi: African Folktales Retold 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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African Folktales: Exotic Stories from Africa for Children Around the World
African Folktales: Exotic Stories from Africa for Children Around the World
by: Greg Uche
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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West African Folktales
West African Folktales 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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African folktales
African folktales 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Daughter of the moonlight and other African tales
Daughter of the moonlight and other African tales 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and Humor of Peoples of African American Descent in the Americas
A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore: The Oral Literature, Traditions, Recollections, Legends, Tales, Songs, Religious Beliefs, Customs, Sayings and Humor of Peoples of African American Descent in the Americas 4.16 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Anansi the Spider
Anansi the Spider 4.12 avg rating — 7,287 ratings
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African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors
African Spirituality: On Becoming Ancestors 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Anansi the Spider Man
Anansi the Spider Man 4.10 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural 3.92 avg rating — 2,180 ratings
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The River That Went to the Sky: Twelve Tales by African Storytellers
The River That Went to the Sky: Twelve Tales by African Storytellers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life
Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life 3.87 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom 4.21 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Tales from Africa
Tales from Africa it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Village that Vanished
The Village that Vanished 4.16 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Best African American Fiction: 2009
Best African American Fiction: 2009 3.83 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Anansi Finds a Fool: An Ashanti Tale
Anansi Finds a Fool: An Ashanti Tale 3.68 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Annotated African American Folktales
The Annotated African American Folktales 4.55 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Children of the Wind
The Children of the Wind 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Circle Unbroken
Circle Unbroken 4.21 avg rating — 230 ratings
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The Clever Monkey: A Folktale from West Africa
The Clever Monkey: A Folktale from West Africa 3.96 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Rene Guillot's African Folk Tales
Rene Guillot's African Folk Tales it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Sundiata: A Legend of Africa
Sundiata: A Legend of Africa 3.35 avg rating — 135 ratings
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I Can Squash Elephants: A Masai Tale About Monsters
I Can Squash Elephants: A Masai Tale About Monsters it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mother Crocodile
Mother Crocodile
by: Rosa Guy
3.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Anansi and the Talking Melon
Anansi and the Talking Melon 4.10 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Birthday
Birthday 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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All Us Come Cross the Water
All Us Come Cross the Water really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South
Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South 3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Marwe: Into the Land of the Dead [An East African Legend]
Marwe: Into the Land of the Dead [An East African Legend] 3.43 avg rating — 53 ratings
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A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories
A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories 4.42 avg rating — 33 ratings
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"There are Other Ways to Get Happy": African-American Urban Folklore
"There are Other Ways to Get Happy": African-American Urban Folklore 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980
Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country
Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Gullah Ghosts: Stories and Folktales from Brookgreen Gardens in the South Carolina Lowcountry with Notes on Gullah Culture and History
Gullah Ghosts: Stories and Folktales from Brookgreen Gardens in the South Carolina Lowcountry with Notes on Gullah Culture and History 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Afro-Cuban Tales
Afro-Cuban Tales 3.72 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus 4.14 avg rating — 1,585 ratings
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Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls 3.89 avg rating — 756 ratings
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Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris
Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit
The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit 4.02 avg rating — 846 ratings
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Afro-American Folktales
Afro-American Folktales 3.97 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby: South Georgia Folktales (Brown Thrasher Books)
Tall Betsy and Dunce Baby: South Georgia Folktales (Brown Thrasher Books) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast
Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore
A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore 3.92 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana
Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana 3.99 avg rating — 418 ratings
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World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power
World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Favorite Folktales from Around the World
Favorite Folktales from Around the World 4.18 avg rating — 954 ratings
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Best-Loved Folktales of the World
Best-Loved Folktales of the World 4.19 avg rating — 514 ratings
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Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales
Uncle Monday and Other Florida Tales 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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African American Folktales
African American Folktales 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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QPB Treasury of North American Folktales
QPB Treasury of North American Folktales 4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Jackie Tales: Magic of H
Jackie Tales: Magic of H 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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When Night Falls, Kric! Krac!: Haitian Folktales (World Folklore Series)
When Night Falls, Kric! Krac!: Haitian Folktales (World Folklore Series) 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Savannah Spectres and Other Strange Tales
Savannah Spectres and Other Strange Tales 3.60 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World 4.14 avg rating — 1,391 ratings
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Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South (Brown Thrasher Books)
Storytellers: Folktales and Legends from the South (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies?: The Truth Behind Old Wives' Tales
Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies?: The Truth Behind Old Wives' Tales 3.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Tales of Texas Cooking: Stories and Recipes from the Trans Pecos to the Piney Woods and High Plains to the Gulf Prairies (Volume 70) (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society)
Tales of Texas Cooking: Stories and Recipes from the Trans Pecos to the Piney Woods and High Plains to the Gulf Prairies (Volume 70) (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society) 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and Other Traditional American Folk Songs
Hear My Sad Story: The True Tales That Inspired "Stagolee," "John Henry," and Other Traditional American Folk Songs 3.67 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Loblolly book: Water witching, wild hog hunting, home remedies, grandma's moral tales, and other affairs of plain Texas living
The Loblolly book: Water witching, wild hog hunting, home remedies, grandma's moral tales, and other affairs of plain Texas living 2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Party Croc!: A Folktale from Zimbabwe
Party Croc!: A Folktale from Zimbabwe 3.57 avg rating — 102 ratings
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