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Pourquoi tales

The cat's purr, Why frog and snake never play together, The fire bringer
Pages
87
Published
1989
Language
English

Synopsis

Why do some animals behave the way they do?...Some answers are scientific. Some answers are imaginative. Imaginative answers may be told in stories and myths passed down from one generation to another. [p.3]

About the author

M
Margaret Hodges

Sarah Margaret "Peggy" Hodges née Moore (July 26, 1911 – December 13, 2005) was an American writer of children's books, librarian, and storyteller. Sarah Margaret Moore was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle Moore and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She...