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Author
Series
Anansi books volume 1
Pub. Date
[1988]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 3
Pub. Date
[1994]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 2
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Anansi the spider plans to trick Turtle into catching a fish for his dinner, but Turtle proves to be smarter and ends up with a free meal. Explains the origin of spider webs.
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 4
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Anansi the Spider steals Hyena's magic stick so he won't have to do the chores, but when the stick's magic won't stop, he gets more than he bargained for.
Author
Series
Anansi books volume 5
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Anansi the spider invites Turtle to a party just to play a trick on him, Turtle gets revenge at a party of his own.
12) Hayyim's ghost
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When Reb Aaron dies, his rich and miserly wife, Bayla Esther, in order to avoid even indirectly paying for a burial, hatches a plot that sees the wife of Hayyim the porter widowed.
13) Cactus soup
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
During the Mexican Revolution, when a troop of hungry soldiers comes to a town where all the food has been hidden, they charm the townspeople into helping make a soup from water and a cactus thorn.
17) Rattlestiltskin
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this Southwestern version of Rumplestiltskin, Rosalinda is in debt to the strange little snake man Rattlestiltskin after he teaches her how to make tortillas so light they float in the air, but can she outsmart the trickster and keep her freedom?
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