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The Name of the Tree
By Lottridge, Celia Barker & Wallace, Ian
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68950-490-7
- Publisher
- New York, NY : M.K. McElderry Books, c1990.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 1990
K-Gr 5 Somewhere on an African plain, a great drought settles on the land. The animals search for food and discover a solitary tree, leaden with every fruit imaginable, and are tantalized by the unreachable find that " smelled like all the fruits of the world. ' ' So begins this Bantu folktale set on an arid flatland. Told with a distant, almost biblical voice, the story explains that the ani...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
