Anansi and Company: Retold Jamaican Tales

Anansi and Company: Retold Jamaican Tales

How do you escape a hungry tiger? Why do ram-goats smell? What happens if you get too greedy? In this collection of ten retold Jamaican stories, Anansi the spider tricks, sings, and dances his way into and out of trouble. But who is Anansi? It was the Ashanti of West Africa who brought the spider into the Caribbean. He clung tight to the web he wove in the minds of those who had been captured, surviving not only the harrowing passage across the Atlantic Ocean, but hundreds of years of slavery. As a trickster, Anansi has both good and bad traits, which makes him very human. Sometimes he wins, sometimes he loses. When he wins he dances and sings for joy. When he loses, he shakes it off and keeps on living, a lesson for us all.
Country USA
Manufacturer Bound Post Publishing
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 43241-21017
Model 43241-21017
EANs 9780986049415
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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