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Author
Series
Anansi books volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
Many African stories are called "Spider stories". This book is about how that came to be. And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky god. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky and went to bargain with the Sky god. The price the Sky god asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet who-stings-like-fire...
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Have you heard the one about the skull who borrowed body parts to pass himself off as a complete human so he could trick the village beauty into marriage? Well, what about when Frog and Snake's daughters had a play date? Okay, okay. But surely you've heard the story about the crocodiles who held a vote on whether or not to eat a man that had saved one of their lives? NO? Wow. Have we got some stories for you.
14) The orphan boy
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Though delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boy's mysterious powers.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Anansi the spider invites Turtle to a party just to play a trick on him, Turtle gets revenge at a party of his own.
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