Aardema, Verna.
Half-A-Ball-Of-Kenki
. New York: Fredrick Warne and Company, 1979. Half-A-Ball-Of-Kenki rescues Fly from Leopard and in the ensuing fray, Leopard receives a spotted coat forever.
Carpenter, Frances.
African Wonder Tales
. New York: Double and Company, 1965. Ali the humor, the cunning, and the native wisdom from that vast continent are present in the stories of animals as well as human adventure.
Creel, J. Luke.
Folk Tales of Liberia
. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison and Company,1960. These tales are from Liberia about both animals and people. Translated tales to arouse reading interest.
Dayrell, Elphinstone,
Why The Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. An old African folktale, this is a simple tale of the Sun, the Moon, and the Water and how they came to be where they are.
Gilkison, Grace.
Told Under the Green Umbrella
. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. This book contains favorite folktales, fairy tales and legends for children.
Guirma, Frederic.
Princess of the Full Moon
. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. This story is about a Princess in search of the perfect husband.
Haley, Gail E.
A Story, A Story
. New York: Atheneum, 1970. This book is about how Ananse the Spider stories came to be.
Hamilton, Virgina.
The People Could Fly
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1985: This book contains retold African-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and the desire for freedom, born of sorrow of the slaves, but based on hope.
Lester, Julius.
Black Folktales
. New York: Grove Press, 1970. This book contains the tales of Uncle Remus.