Anansi The Trickster Spider - Volume Two

by Lynne Garner

Anansi The Trickster Spider - Volume Two (Trickier Than Ever) Eight Traditional African Tales retold by Lynne Garner>/strong> For centuries storytellers in Africa have delighted in entertaining children with tales featuring Anansi the trickster spider. Anansi is a mischief-making character similar to the Fox who features in European fairy tales and Coyote who stars in many Native American myths & legends. What makes children love to listen to and read Anansi stories? Perhaps it's because he can be clever, lazy and selfish but also sometimes he can become the hero. The eight retold short stories in this book demonstrate how he can be all of these things. This book contains eight funny short stories for children featuring Anansi the trickster spider. These much-loved tales How Anansi missed four parties in one night Anansi invites Turtle to tea How Anansi, Fly and Ant won the sun Anansi and the talking melon Anansi and the moss covered rock Why Anansi has thin, long legs Anansi and the field of corn Anansi and the tug of war Each story can be read in approximately ten minutes making this book ideal for bedtime at home or for story time in school. This is the second volume of Anansi stories written by Lynne featuring Anansi the Spider. The first volume entitled Anansi The Trickster Spider - Volume One is also available to download from Amazon and contains eight different short stories. parents, guardians, teachers and after school organisers. Visit www.anansi-spider.com to download our exclusive FREE PDF's that have been designed to compliment this book. We plan to add many more, so when you visit remember to sign up to our newsletter.

42 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 22, 2012

Reviews

[Booklover · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute middle-grade folk tales about Anansi, a spider who thinks he is smart and can fool his animal friends by playing tricks on them. But sometimes his tricks backfire on him! I enjoyed the stories in volume 2 better than those in volume 1.