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Verna Aardema


Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

book cover of Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

retold by Verna Aardema
illustrated by the Leo & Diane Dillon

Reading level: Ages 4-8

Caldecott Award Winner for 1976

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Por Que Zumban Los Mosquitos En Los Oidos De LA Gente (Spanish version)
osvald Blanco

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Anansi Does the Impossible : An Ashanti Tale
by Verna Aardema,
Lisa Desimini (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain : A Nandi Tale
by Verna Aardema,
illustrated by Beatriz Vidal
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Anansi Finds a Fool : An Ashanti Tale
by Verna Aardema,
Bryna Waldman (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Bimwili and the Zimwi : A Tale from Zanzibar
by Verna Aardema,
Susan Meddaugh (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion : A Swahili Tale
by Verna Aardema
Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Sebgugugu the Glutton : A Bantu Tale from Rwanda by Verna Aardema,
Nancy L. Clouse (Illustrator)

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Borreguita and the Coyote : A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico
by Verna Aardema,
Petra Mathers (Illustrator)

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How the Ostrich Got Its Long Neck : A Tale from the Akamba of Kenya
by Verna Aardema
Marcia Brown (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Jackal's Flying Lesson
by Verna Aardema,
Dale Gottlieb
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks : A Masai Tale
by Verna Aardema,
Yumi Heo (Illustrator)
J. Davis (Editor)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Misoso : Once upon a Time Tales from Africa
by Verna Aardema (Editor),
Reynold Ruffins (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Oh, Kojo! How Could You! : An Ashanti Tale (Pied Piper) by Verna Aardema,
Marc Tolon Brown (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Pedro and the Padre : A Tale from Jalisco, Mexico
by Verna Aardema,
Friso Henstra (Illustrator)

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This for That : A Tonga Tale
by Verna Aardema,
Victoria Chess (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Traveling to Tondo : A Tale of the Nkundo of Zaire
by Verna Aardema,
Will Hillenbrand (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Who's in Rabbit's House? : A Masai Tale
by Verna Aardema,
Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
Reading level: Ages 4-8

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Koi and the Kola Nuts : A Tale from Liberia
by Verna Aardema,
Joe Cepeda (Illustrator)

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About the author and her works:


A Bookworm Who Hatched (Meet the Author) by Verna Aardema,
Dede Smith (Photographer)
Reading level: Ages 9-12

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