Anansi Talking Melon

from WSRobitaille

This story is the third tale in a series about Anansi the spider. Anansi decides to burrow inside a melon in an elephants melon patch for something to eat. Once inside, he gets so bloated with all the melon he has eaten to be able to leave through the hole he made. To pass his time while the melo...

from mrcmyoung

Anansi fools all of the animals on the savanna when he borrows his way into a melon and starts talking to them while he waits to digest his meal. Hilarity ensues. This would be a fun book to act out with the little ones in the library.

from IEliasson

Eric Kimmel's comical retelling of West African trickster tale, Anansi and the Talking Melon, is ideal material for story time read alouds. The insolent Anansi entertains himself by tricking all the animals into thinking he is the voice of a talking melon. As each animal has a joke made at their ...

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Elephant works industriously in his garden while that trickster spider Anansi watches, yearning after the melons he is too lazy to cultivate himself. When Elephant goes inside for a rest, Anansi eats his way into the ripest melon, but gorges so much that he is too fat to get out again. Convincing...

from fashionablyloud1

This is the second of three Anansi stories by this particular author & illustrator! It is quite delightful to read at some point early in the day as it can become interactive! Wonderful & detailed illustrations always create super curious questions! For this particular story we played some Africa...