Kuku and Mwewe : a Swahili folktale / retold by Marta Munté Vidal.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publisher: Madrid, Spain : Cuento de Luz SL, [2013]Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cmContent type: - still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 8415619979
- 9788415619970
- Kuku na Mwewe. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 398.2089 M971 | Available | 33111007943745 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A wonderful fable inspired by an old Swahili legend reminds us of the importance of taking responsibility for our actions.
Kuku the chicken and Mwewe the eagle have been the very best of friends their entire lives. Kuku was very vain, and every year when Spring arrived, she would go to the city to buy a kitenge so elegant that everyone in the village would admire her. But one day, she walked merrily across the savannah, she didn't realize that the dress had got caught on the branch of a mgunga until suddenly she heard... RRRRIP! Sad to see that her new dress was ruined, Kuku begs Mwewe to let her borrow a needle that is also a family heirloom. Mwewe reluctantly lends her friend the needle that belonged to their ancestors, trusting her to care for it like the cherished possession it is, on one condition: she must bring it back.
English translation by Jon Brokenbrow.
Translation of: Kuku na Mwewe (El águila y la gallina).
Imparts a lesson about taking responsibility through the story of Kuku the chicken, who, after tearing her dress and borrowing a family heirloom needle from Mwewe the eagle, carelessly loses the needle, causing the friendship to end.