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Series

Anansi

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.

2) Anansi and the magic stick

Author

Anansi
Live Oak Media eReadalong

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

Anansi the Spider steals Hyena's magic stick so he won't have to do the chores, but when the stick's magic won't stop, he gets more than he bargained for.

3) Abiyoyo: based on a South African lullaby and folk story

Author

Seeger, Pete

Series

Reading rainbow book

Language

English

Description

Banished from the town for making mischief, a little boy and his father are welcomed back when they find a way to make the dreaded giant Abiyoyo disappear.

4) Anansi goes fishing

Author

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Playaway Wonderbook

Series

Anansi

Language

English

Formats

Description

Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.

5) Why mosquitoes buzz in people's ears: a West African tale

Author

Weston Woods read-along CD

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, CD + Book

Description

Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.

6) A story, a story: an African tale

Author

Haley, Gail E

Language

English

Formats

Book, CD + Book

Description

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called "Spider Stories."

7) Anansi's party time

Author

Series

Anansi

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

When Anansi the spider invites Turtle to a party just to play a trick on him, Turtle gets revenge at a party of his own.

8) Anansi the spider: a tale from the Ashanti

Author

McDermott, Gerald

Language

English

Description

In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky.

9) Mabela the clever

Author

MacDonald, Margaret Read

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

An African folktale about a mouse who pays close attention to her surroundings and avoids being tricked by the cat.

10) Zomo the Rabbit: a trickster tale from West Africa

Author

McDermott, Gerald

Language

English

Description

Zomo the Rabbit, an African trickster, sets out to gain wisdom.

11) Abiyoyo returns

Author

Seeger, Pete

Language

English

Description

Based on a South African tale, this story tells what happens when a giant who had been banished from a town by a magician thirty years earlier is called back to save the town from flooding.

13) Why the sun and the moon live in the sky: an African folktale

Author

Dayrell, Elphinstone

Language

English

Description

An African folktale tells how the sun and water once lived on earth as friends, but because the sun failed to build his house large enough, he and his wife, the moon, were driven into the sky when the water came to visit them.

14) Rabbit makes a monkey of lion: a Swahili tale

Author

Language

English

Description

With the help of his friends Bush-rat and Turtle, smart and nimble Rabbit makes a fool of the mighty but slow-witted king of the forest.

15) How many spots does a leopard have? and other tales

Author

Lester, Julius

Language

English

Description

An illustrated collection of twelve folk tales, ten African and two Jewish.

16) Misoso: once upon a time tales from Africa

Author

Language

English

Description

A collection of twelve folktales from different parts of Africa.

17) The hunterman and the crocodile: a West African folktale

Author

Diakité, Baba Wagué

Language

English

Description

Donso, a West African hunterman, learns the importance of living in harmony with nature and the necessity of placing humans among, not above, all other living things.

18) Rapunzel

Author

Isadora, Rachel

Language

English

Description

Recasts in an African setting the familiar fairy tale in which a beautiful girl with extraordinarily long hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

19) Who's in Rabbit's house?: a Masai tale

Author

Series

Picture Puffins

Language

English

20) The story of lightning & thunder

Author

Bryan, Ashley

Language

English

Description