Bibliograph

A story, a story, an African tale, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley

Type

Label

A story, a story, an African tale, retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

A story, a story

Oclc number

67571

Responsibility statement

retold and illustrated by Gail E. Haley

Sub title

an African tale

Summary

Many African stories are called "Spider stories". This book is about how that came to be. And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky god. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky and went to bargain with the Sky god. The price the Sky god asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet who-stings-like-fire and Mmoatia the fairy whom-man-never-see. This book is about how Ananse paid the price

Target audience

juvenile

Contributor

Creator