00900cam a2200241 4500 47079158 TxAuBib 20010602120000.0 ||||||s1994||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 91024949 /AC 9780316308526 $15.95 0316308528 $15.95 TxAuBib Gerson, Mary-Joan. Why the sky is far away : a nigerian folktale / retold by Mary-Joan Gerson ; pictures by Carla Golembe. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, 1994. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill ; 22 cm. The sky was once so close to the Earth that people cut parts of it to eat, but their waste and greed caused the sky to move far away. 20010602. Folklore Nigeria. Golembe, Carla, ill.