Book Descriptions
for Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
Five Nigerian folktales provide a humorous and forceful look at several human dilemmas. Illustrated with woodcuts.
CCBC Choices 1980. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1980. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
From Coretta Scott King Award–winning creator Ashley Bryan comes a rhythmic picture book of five Nigerian folktales.
From the silly tale of a monkey’s speech being sprinkled with shoo bee do’s and hay baa ba ree bop’s to the more poignant story of two young friends—a snake and a frog—being warned away from each other by their prejudiced mothers, these five tales and their striking woodcut illustrations are sure to enchant young readers.
From the silly tale of a monkey’s speech being sprinkled with shoo bee do’s and hay baa ba ree bop’s to the more poignant story of two young friends—a snake and a frog—being warned away from each other by their prejudiced mothers, these five tales and their striking woodcut illustrations are sure to enchant young readers.
Publisher description retrieved from Google Books.
