How Elephant Lost His Huge Bottom and Other Ananse Stories (African Fireside Classics, #5)

by A. Sakyiama

Overview

*Why do crickets have black teeth?
*Why do chickens have beaks?
*Why do spiders have small waists?

The short answer is . . . Ananse did it!

You can find the long answers to these and other intriguing questions in this collection of West African folktales. 

All twelve stories feature Kweku Ananse, the trickster, who is sometimes a man and sometimes a spider. Follow along as he works his mischief. 

On the way, you'll discover why spiders look the way they do, why termites are so angry and what happened to the crocodile's ears.
 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940046263169
Publisher:	Aso House Press
Publication date:	08/01/2014
Series:	African Fireside Classics
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	344 KB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

A. Sakyiama was born in Ghana, West Africa. She grew up hearing many of the stories that she now retells for all of us to enjoy.

She writes of the antics of wily folktale characters like Ananse, his son, Ntikuma and his clever wife, Aso. She tells stories of naughty and nice ghosts; scared but brave boys and girls; monsters that eat disobedient children; as well as fantastical tales about why things are the way they are.
 
A. Sakyiama currently lives in the USA with her family. She is also an avid gardener or more accurately, a fierce warrior who defends her territory against marauding gangs of deer, woodchucks, rabbits and crows.

Visit her at www.asakyiama.com.