The Coming of Night: A Yoruba Creation Myth from West Africa - Softcover

Riordan, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847802761 ISBN 13: 9781847802767

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, 2011

Synopsis

Long, long ago, when the earth was new, the great river goddess Yemoya sent her daughter Aje to marry a handsome earth chief in the Land of Shining Day. At first Aje was happy, but soon she started to pine for the cool shadows of her mother's realm. James Riordan's retelling of a Yoruba tale, vividly illustrated by Jenny Stow, gives an enchanting explanation of the coming of night to our world.

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Review

"It really is very difficult to imagine a more seductive introduction for the young reader to these ancient, dynamic tales." Books for Keeps"

About the Author

James Riordan travelled the world collecting folktales and published over thirty volumes of tales from different countries. The Twelve Labours of Hercules won the UK Reading Association Award 1998. He was Emeritus Professor at the University of Surry and Visiting Professor at the University of Worcester, as well as holding honorary degrees from Birmingham, London, Moscow and Grenoble. He regularly reviewed children's books for The Times., and his autobiography, Comrade Jim: the spy who played for Spartak, was published in 2008 by Fourth Estate. He also wrote ten novels for young people. His first, Sweet Clarinet, won the NASEN award in 1999 and was nominated for the Whitbread Prize in 1998. Match of Death won the South Lanarkshire Book Award in 2004, and The Gift was nominated for the NASEN award in 2006. He published a novel on slavery, Rebel Cargo, with Frances Lincoln in 2007. James Riordan died in 2012.

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847802761
• ISBN 13: 9781847802767
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Stow Jenny