On My Own Folklore Anansi and the Box of Stories: A West African Folktale, (Paperback)

from ChelseaRose

Anansi needs to get four different animals for his god to obtain important information about the world. To get these animals he must contrive clever ways to trick them into being captured, such as luring a tiger, capturing wasps, and wrangling a snake. He is successful and gains the information a...

from darianskie

Anansi is a spider who wants to know the stories from the sky. Nyame the sky god refuses everyone who asks for his stories. Anansi asks fro the price of the stories and has to trick four deadly creatures into getting captured so that he can receive the stories. He does and is able to share the st...

from Brettch

I love Anansi stories. I was in a classroom where we read like 5 of them and compared each one and chose our favorites.I like this one because of the African style artwork and the the hero aspect that Anansi has to take on. Some of the Anansi stories involve trickery, I also like that.

from Scottid

A nice version of the tale of how Anansi procured the stories from the sky god, Nyame. 4 creatures had to be turned over to Nyame before he would release the tales. With his wife's help (really her ideas) he cleverly tricks and captures them one by one and hands them to Nyame. In this version he ...

from chelsiking

This is another fun book about the folktale of the spider Anansi. Stephen Krensky creates wonderful stories about Anansi the spider, which are fun alternatives to other folktales portraying Anansi.