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A Story, a Story (Story a Story Lib)

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Description

Many African stories, whether or not they’re about Kwaku Ananse the “spider man,” are known as, “Spider Stories.” This book is about how that came to be.

The African storyteller begins: “We don’t in point of fact mean, We don’t in point of fact mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go.”

And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on the planet for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to shop for a few of these stories, so he spun a internet up to the sky and went up to bargain with the Sky God. The cost the Sky God asked was once Osebo, the leopard of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy whom-men-never-see.

How Ananse paid The cost is told in a graceful and clever text, with forceful, lovely woodcut illustrations.

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