Retold by Verna Aardema
Illustrated by Lisa Desimini
Published in 1997
What a courageous tale of a spider, Anansi, and his adventure to receive all the folk tales from the Gods. Anansi seeks to be the storyteller of the village but the only person who knows all the stories is the God. When Anansi confronts the God about being able to tell the stories of the village, there is a catch and Anansi and his wife take the reader through his journey to be the ultimate story teller. One feature of the book includes a glossary of all the African words used throughout the book so the reader can know the definition of the word and how to pronounce the unfamiliar term. The illustrator, Lisa Desimini, does a great job with the pictures of the book depicting the story through picture. For classroom implications, this book can be used with older elementary students and use the theme of overcoming adversity and can be used as a culture story, in the fact of preserving one's history.
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