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Anansi The Trickster Spider, Volume One
Discover Anansi the trickster spider who is as clever as he is lazy. Anansi loves to prove just how clever he is by boasting and tricking those around him. However sometimes his tricks backfire with comic effect.
Adults will love reading these tales to younger children whilst older children will delight in discovering Anansi for themselves. Following Anansi in the following eight tales:
Anansi and the gum doll
How Anansi got to ride Tiger
How Anansi turned an ear of corn into one hundred goats
How Anansi won the stories of the Sky-God
Why Anansi the Spider stays on the ceiling
Anansi and the Witch named ‘Five’
Anansi and the pot of wisdom
Anansi and the Tommy (Thompson Gazelle)
Each story can be read in approximately ten minutes making this book ideal for bedtime at home or for story time in school.
Adults will love reading these tales to younger children whilst older children will delight in discovering Anansi for themselves. Following Anansi in the following eight tales:
Anansi and the gum doll
How Anansi got to ride Tiger
How Anansi turned an ear of corn into one hundred goats
How Anansi won the stories of the Sky-God
Why Anansi the Spider stays on the ceiling
Anansi and the Witch named ‘Five’
Anansi and the pot of wisdom
Anansi and the Tommy (Thompson Gazelle)
Each story can be read in approximately ten minutes making this book ideal for bedtime at home or for story time in school.
37 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 31, 2011
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July 16, 2019
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This is just a tiny book, just 37 pages long. There's nothing not to like about it, but there's not much to love either.
The stories are typical folktale sort of things, with Anansi the Spider, of course, being the star.
It's a good collection, and entertaining. It certainly paints a vivid picture of the kind of person Anansi was.
Sometimes when Anansi was bored and had nothing better to do he would dream up ways in which he would be able to prove just how clever he really was.
The Trickster Spider is a popular African folktale. Anansi can appear both as a man and as a spider, so some of the stories are up for a little interpretation. You sort of have to imagine both at the same time, if that makes any sort of sense.
Anansi is a lazy creature, but he's cunning and tricky. He's continuously trying to outsmart the other animals into doing his work for him, so pulling some stunt to make himself look better. He succeeds sometimes, and other times gets outsmarted himself. There's no doubt that Anansi is very clever, though.
Although I have said Anansi is a spider he also has the power to appear as a man, so sometimes in these stories it is difficult to decide what form he has taken. Is he a spider or is he a man? So, it has been left to you to decide for yourself if you see him with two slightly hairy legs or eight extremely hairy legs.
If you've read any Br'er Rabbit stories, or other tales by Uncle Remus, you might be familiar with a story or two included here, like the Tar Baby for instance. The rest of the stories follow a similar theme, too. I think my favourite has to be how Anansi got to ride Tiger.
I also like the fact that in a couple of the stories, both Anansi and others regularly went home to consult their wives, who invariably had more wisdom than their husbands. Can you imagine marrying a spider? Aso must have been much braver than me!
Now, as he was coming home from the place where the sky god lived Anansi fell from a very great height and as he fell, so did the pot containing all the stories he had just won. As the pot fell to earth the lid came off and all the stories fell out. The wind caught them and scattered them to the four corners of the world.
All in all, this is a cute little collection, but nothing particularly groundbreaking. It's a shame it's not longer, but I did enjoy it.
This is just a tiny book, just 37 pages long. There's nothing not to like about it, but there's not much to love either.
The stories are typical folktale sort of things, with Anansi the Spider, of course, being the star.
It's a good collection, and entertaining. It certainly paints a vivid picture of the kind of person Anansi was.
Sometimes when Anansi was bored and had nothing better to do he would dream up ways in which he would be able to prove just how clever he really was.
The Trickster Spider is a popular African folktale. Anansi can appear both as a man and as a spider, so some of the stories are up for a little interpretation. You sort of have to imagine both at the same time, if that makes any sort of sense.
Anansi is a lazy creature, but he's cunning and tricky. He's continuously trying to outsmart the other animals into doing his work for him, so pulling some stunt to make himself look better. He succeeds sometimes, and other times gets outsmarted himself. There's no doubt that Anansi is very clever, though.
Although I have said Anansi is a spider he also has the power to appear as a man, so sometimes in these stories it is difficult to decide what form he has taken. Is he a spider or is he a man? So, it has been left to you to decide for yourself if you see him with two slightly hairy legs or eight extremely hairy legs.
If you've read any Br'er Rabbit stories, or other tales by Uncle Remus, you might be familiar with a story or two included here, like the Tar Baby for instance. The rest of the stories follow a similar theme, too. I think my favourite has to be how Anansi got to ride Tiger.
I also like the fact that in a couple of the stories, both Anansi and others regularly went home to consult their wives, who invariably had more wisdom than their husbands. Can you imagine marrying a spider? Aso must have been much braver than me!
Now, as he was coming home from the place where the sky god lived Anansi fell from a very great height and as he fell, so did the pot containing all the stories he had just won. As the pot fell to earth the lid came off and all the stories fell out. The wind caught them and scattered them to the four corners of the world.
All in all, this is a cute little collection, but nothing particularly groundbreaking. It's a shame it's not longer, but I did enjoy it.
June 13, 2013
A very nice collection. Good use of storytelling and language. The stories are varied and present different aspects of Anansi. Well done!
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