Illustrated throughout with color art reproductions. Pages [unpaginated] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Pictorial boards, clean, colors bright, decorated endpapers, a little shelf wear at extremities [corners and spine ends bumped], small area with little dents. PO's LAST name at fep. Audio cassette non included. Two Jamaican folk tales in which Anansi the spider practices his trickery on others. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.

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Title

Anansi

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Rabbit Ears Books

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

0887082319

ISBN 13

9780887082313

Binding

Hard Cover

Illustrator

Guarnaccia, Steven

Edition

First Edition Second Printing.

Condition

Very Good-

Dust Jacket Condition

No Jacket as Issued ?

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Two Jamaican folk tales in which Anansi the spider practices his trickery on others

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Kindergarten-Grade 6-- Retellings of two Jamaican stories. The first tells how Anansi came to possess all stories, and the second tells of his plan to seem important at his mother-in-law's funeral. The selections follow one after another in the book, as they would in the oral tradition, with no separation or demarcation. The prose is spare and droll as befits trickster tales in which creatures such as Anansi can be both wise and foolish. The illustrations are bright, modern, stylized paintings. The bug-eyed, wildly dressed, top-hatted spider/man plays off against other more naturally represented animal characters and a simple tropical backdrop. Denzel Washington uses Jamaican dialect and narrates in the present tense (the book uses past tense), capturing the rhythms of Caribbean storytelling. UB40 provides lively reggae accompaniment. Gail Haley's A Story, A Story (Atheneum, 1970) is an African version of the opening tale, and Gerald McDermott's Anansi the Spider (Holt, 1972) is also West African. Students may wish to compare these picture-book versions of African stories with their Caribbean counterparts. --Barbara Chatton, College of Education, University of Wyoming, Laramie
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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