Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
376
Points per Word
0.00133
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them. A Caldecott Honor book .