Anansi Goes Fishing (Anansi the Trickster)

My 3rd graders love this book! It's a cute story and pairs really well with "Tops and Bottoms" by Janet Stevens.

Grew up with Anansi books and wanted my daughter to grow up with em too. The book cam undamaged and clean. I appreciate that.

All the books in the Anansi series are fun! We love to read them to our children for many reasons: They learn something (at least somewhat) useful, they're enjoyable for them AND they're enjoyable for us! The kids love to see how someone will trick this lazy spider!The first time we found this book was in a library, and it was a 'book on tape' set. If you can find this, we recommend it, too, as the reader is very funny! :)In this book, Anansi wants a fish just like his friend the turtle has just caught. And what fun it is to see the logic turtle uses to get Anansi to do all the work while turtle 'gets tired'! We love this book! It is good clean fun! :)

GREAT African folklore! LOVED it! You MUST get this if you have kids or if you just want to learn (even as an adult) about African folklore in general, and the ways in which Africans have told stories for centuries! Like all great stories from Africa, it ends with a "moral" or "lesson". So traditional stories on the continent are told for a reason, even though they are also very entertaining. Very easy reading for readers of ALL ages! I highly recommend it!

Anansi, lazy spider, plans to trick Turtle out of his fish.Unfortunately, everybody knows what sort of a person Anansi is, and Turtle tricks him first. Well, truth be told, it's pretty funny to see how Anansi manages to outwit himself. Sure, Turtle facilitates it, but this is a prime example of how being lazy doesn't work if you don't also think. (And if you want to go deeper, the end of the story shows how if you constantly trick people, nobody believes you when you're the wronged party.)Really funny book, and there's probably a moral in there somewhere.

This is a new family favorite for my boys (ages 1, 3, and 4) at bedtime. It is very well written and captures the spirit of Anansi the trickster.

Book was in excellent condition. Price was right and shipping was fast. Daughter, now grandchildren, love the Anansi stories. Thank you!

I have followed Eric Kimmel for years and burst with laughter at his West African tales. My friend who is fluent in Minde described similar stories from his work in Sierra Leone when I worked there.Janet Stevens does an excellent job of illustrating the stories just like I had immagined the characters in my mind.

There are two parts to any job - the doing of the work, and the getting tired that follows. Turtle, teaching Anansi to fish, invites Anansi to take his pick: the work or the tiredness? Anansi is not keen on work, but he hates the getting tired...Anansi, the man-spider from Ashantiland in Ghana, is the star of scores of fantastic traditional tales, but Eric Kimmel and Janet Stephens have chosen and re-presented four of the funniest and most bizarre (the other three are 'Anansi and the Talking Melon', 'Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock' and 'Anansi and the Magic Stick'). Each of these books has exuberant illustrations and language, with spot on timing - kids from 5 upwards will be enthralled.(......)

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