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This text retells traditional tales from the Caribbean, about Anansi the spider and his friends, Mouse, Rat and Crow. In these stories, the animals truimph over the humans consumed by greed, selfishness and vanity.
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...and i don't want to start intercontinental trouble...but it's as well you know that these are the West Indian versions of the much travelled Ghanaian legendary spider.
Beautifully presented in a brightly illustrated solid white hard cover, we get a selection of well known favourites of the African arachnid. Plenty of story telling material to keep young eyes wide open at bed time, the stories are written as close to the tradditional as the could be, preserving culture at the expense of some of the easier listening, but still easily suitable for infants and juniors.
Told and retold throughout the Africa and the Americas, as a rough rule of thumb, the further West Anansi goes, the younger he becomes.
These versions have a contemporary flavour, very much rooted in the late 20th Century, most obviously demonstrated by the technical references and of course reggae-reggae headgear.
Fine for home, requires judicious use if you were aiming at cultural material for a Ghana project (which I was co-opted to do.) The real history is lost in this edition, but the stories well worth discovering.
Beautifully presented in a brightly illustrated solid white hard cover, we get a selection of well known favourites of the African arachnid. Plenty of story telling material to keep young eyes wide open at bed time, the stories are written as close to the tradditional as the could be, preserving culture at the expense of some of the easier listening, but still easily suitable for infants and juniors.
Told and retold throughout the Africa and the Americas, as a rough rule of thumb, the further West Anansi goes, the younger he becomes.
These versions have a contemporary flavour, very much rooted in the late 20th Century, most obviously demonstrated by the technical references and of course reggae-reggae headgear.
Fine for home, requires judicious use if you were aiming at cultural material for a Ghana project (which I was co-opted to do.) The real history is lost in this edition, but the stories well worth discovering.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This has been a great book to use with Year 5 children in school. They have studied and created their own African stories based on Anansi.
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