Verna continued to adapt and retell folktales from many different cultures. In the early 70s, Albert died, she retired from teaching, married a nicer man named Joel, and became the full-time storyteller she'd dreamed of being, at age eleven. She has two kids, four grandkids, and is very very happy.
Books:
Anansi Does the Impossible!
Anansi Finds a Fool
Bimwili and the Zimwi
A Bookworm Who Hatched
Borreguita and the Coyote
Koi and the Kola Nuts
The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks
Misoso
Oh, Kojo! How Could You!
Pedro and the Padre
Princess Gorilla and a New Kind of Water
Rabbit Makes a Monkey of Lion
Sebgugugu the Glutton
This for That
Traveling to Tondo
Who's in Rabbit's House?
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
thanks to:
http://www.edupaperback.org/authorbios/Aardema_Verna.html
http://avatar.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/findaids/aardema.htm
www.amazon.com