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A 1975 classic children's picture book and African folktale by Verna Aardema and illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. It won the Caldecott Award in 1976.The plot is simple: one day, a mosquito decides to annoy an iguana by telling him a lie about a farmer and some yams. Annoyed, the iguana grabs a pair of sticks and shoves them in his ears. The iguana passes the snake, who greets him, but the iguana doesn't hear him and walks away. The snake, convinced that the iguana is plotting against him, slithers into the nearest hole to hide, which (very unfortunately) happens to be a rabbit burrow. The rabbit that lives in the burrow runs for her life when she sees the snake coming, which confuses a passing crow into thinking that the forest is in danger. He calls the alarm to warn the other animals, and a monkey tries to help him by doing the same thing, but accidentally breaks off a dead branch on a tree, which falls on one of Mother Owl's baby owlets, killing it. When Mother Owl comes home, she finds her child dead and goes into mourning, forgetting to wake the sun. The animals' king, a lion, calls all the animals to a meeting, and through a reverse chain of accounts, the mosquito is found guilty. To this day, she hides under leaves and whines in people's ears: "Zeee! Is everyone still angry at me?"
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