Bobby Norfolk retells traditional Anansi stories he learned during a visit to an obscure African village.

While helping his Grandma Spider, Anansi cannot resist her steaming hot pot of beans, despite her warnings to stay away.

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

Presents an African folk tale explaining how the lazy spider Anansi came to have eight long legs and a narrow waist. Includes two recipes.

Many African stories are called "Spider stories". This book is about how that came to be. And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky god. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky and went to bargain with the Sky god. The price the Sky god asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet who-stings-like-fire...

The West Indian trickster Anancy Spiderman tries to persuade Sun-Spirit, Water-Spirit, Earth-Spirit, and Air-Spirit to create the world's first palm trees so that he can collect a reward from the king.

A collection of ten stories about Ananse, the African spider trickster.

Relates a tale from West Africa that describes how Anansi, a spider, came to have eight thin legs.