Joyce Carol Thomas adapts a raft of folklore originally collected by Zora Neale Hurston in What's the Hurry, Fox? And Other Animal Stories, illus. by Brian Collier. The pourquoi tales told to Hurston ...
"Why the buzzard has no home" / Armetta Jones -- "What's the hurry, fox?" "Why porpoise's tail is on crosswise," "Why flies get the first taste" / M.C. Ford -- "Why donkey has long ears" / Nathaniel ...