The Great Race

by Paul Goble

Book Overview

Long ago, when the world was still quite new, buffaloes used to eat people. It is true? The hair on their chins is hair of the people they use to eat...It is Terrible to think about those times... But the Creator saw the people's distress and decreed that a contest be held between all the two-legged and four-legged creatures. Who would win, thundering Buffalo or fleet-footed Man? None of the other animals was fast enough, and before the end, Beaver...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0027369501
• ISBN13: 9780027369502
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2