Fuse 8 n’ Kate: Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rick retold by Eric A. Kimmel, ill. Janet Stevens

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It was a storytime staple for me back when I was a children’s librarian. But how has this 1988 picture book stood up over the intervening years? Today it’s time to accompany our previous spider-filled picture book The Spider and the Fly with another eight-legged potential classic. We’ve done one other Eric A. Kimmel book on the podcast before (remember Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins?). In spite of the sheer number of times I’ve read this book, Kate finds PLENTY of details in Janet...