Stories and poems connect children throughout the world like rivers flowing from country to country. They can encourage children to learn about the world of other children, in other places. This collection uses water as its theme to celebrate such imaginative cultural connections.
Contents:
A message from His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales - 10
About the words - 12
About the Pictures - 13
Drawing Water From The Well - 14
Woman's World - Botswana - 16 - Cooking with Salt Water - Fiji Islands - 18 - Prescription - Samoa - 23 - Do You Believe in Magic? - Malta - 24 - The Boy Who Called Across the River - Sierra Leone - 26 - Wednesday Afternoon - Tonga - 27 - The Magic Fish - Malawi - 28 - Why People Have to Die - Vanuatu - 31
Down By The Water Hole - 34
The Enchanted River Tree - Zambia - 36 - The March of the Hermit Crabs in the Rain - The Bahamas - 40 - Nkalimeva - Swaziland - 42 - Black Noddy - Nauru - 45 - Clever Tortoise - United Republic of Tanzania - 46
Waves Upon The Shore - 50
When it's Summer - New Zealand - 52 - Kader - Seychelles - 53 - Dawn is a Fisherman - Belize - 56 - The Two Crabs - 58 - The Sea is a Mystery - Dominica - 59 - Seashell - Jamaica - 60 - Citronella - Mauritius - 61
The Salty Sea Breeze - 64
The Legend of the Golden Apple Tree - Barbados - 64 - Once the Wind - St Vincent and the Grenadines - 66 - Si Perawai, the Greedy Fisherman - Brunei Darussalam - 71 - Sailing Under Moonlit Skies - Maldives - 73 - The Three Brothers - Mozambique - 74 - We Have Come Home - The Gambia - 77 - Rajah Suran's Expedition to China - Singapore - 78
Sun, Moon And The Starry Sky - 82
The Messenger of the Moon - Malaysia - 84 - How the Starfish got to the Sea - Antigua and Barbuda - 88 - The Sun Witness - Bangladesh - 91 - Right Here Was the Ocean - Pakistan - 92 - The Moon in Swampland - United Kingdom - 93 - The Star's Tears - Papua New Guinea - 96 - Being Free - St Lucia - 97
Why A Rainbow Follows Rain 98
The Rainmaker - Tuvalu - 100 - The Mist - Lesotho - 101 - Rain and Fire - Namibia - 102 - Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain - Kenya - 104 - The Storm - India - 106 - The Thunder Spirit's Bride - Rwanda - 107 - Mookari - Australia - 112 - Invocation to the Rainbow - Cameroon - 114
Ghosts, Giants And Mermaids Of The Deep - 116
Wind and River Romance - Guyana - 118 - When I was a Child - Trinidad and Tobago - 119 - Tebwere, Tebarere, and Tetintiri - Kiribati - 120 - The Enchanted Rock - St Kitts and Nevis - 122 - The Warrior Women of Lumalao - Solomon Islands - 124 - Kyrenia - Cyprus - 128 - Rampunch and the Sea Devil - Grenada - 129
Water Gods and Ice Kings - 132
The Water God's Challenge - Nigeria - 134 - Mawu of the Waters - Ghana - 137 - The River Fairy - Uganda - 138 - The Ice King - Canada - 142 - The Marriage of the Rain Goddess - South Africa - 144
Glossary - 148
A Note From the Anthologist - 150
About the Anthologist - 153
Acknowledgements and Permissions - 154
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