Anansí and the Pot of Beans (Story Cove)

Anansi stories are always interesting because the spider trickster is always landing in some kind of adventure or trouble...many time of his own greedy, impulsive design. My three-year-old nephew loves for us to read this story to him at bedtime. He loves Grandma Spider and her delicious pot of spicy beans, which lures the silly, ever-hungry Anansi to her kitchen.My nephew finds it amusing that the spider fellow has six arms, three in each sleeve, while Grandma spider has a sleeve for each of her arms. [Spiders, of course, in this story walk on their other set of "arms / legs" for a total of eight appendages all together! LOL] He especially enjoys the illustration on page 9 when Grandma is cooking. Another picture he loves is on page 13 when Anansi is hovering over the port of beans---his six arms ready for the unveiling!If your child has a vivid imagination and a sense of humor, he / she would probably enjoy this cause and effect story where Anansi looses his hair. Educationally, the tale presents themes about responsibility, trustworthiness, respect, and listening. This book is worth reading to and discussing with children. It's actually more interesting--in text and in illustration-than "Anansi Goes to Lunch," which is by the same author / illustrator pair.The companion websites from StoryCove are enjoyable for young people as well.

Overall a decent book of one of the caribbean versions of the African-originated Anansi tales. Good length, not too short, not too long and offers an entertaining, but easy to comprehend moral lesson out of it. Fun, colourful illustrations to accompany the text.However one gaping editorial error here in a passage where the books says "Anansi blushed" - that is really quite an implausible concept for an African or carribean story, needless to say. Not in line with the accompanying images of Anansi as a black character either. That was poorly done, but otherwise the book was decent.

I bought this book to use to introduce folktales around the world at school with elementary students.

We have an Anansi book collection and was very happy to add this one.

This is one of my daughter's favorite stories. We love the tales of Anansi!

I'm not a fan of the illustrations I think they're a little creepy, but the story is good. Not bad for the price tho

Its ok

As expected

Absolutely atrocious version of a beloved childhood characters tale. The white authors, and yes they even put their photographs in it, when go so far as to tell you that they went into an African village and heard a lovely woman telling these tales to the village children, and then they stole them to create this book!The Tropes and characterisations throughout the book, in words and in pictures are so offensive that I almost burned the book so that nobody else would be offended by it! But then I thought I could make an example of them instead watch out for the video on YouTube!

I bought this to read to my Grandchildren, but it's more suitable for a child to read (?7 year old), as there's not a lot of text for an adult reading a bedtime story.

This book was brilliant, it is funny, rhyming and has good illustrations. The story was very funny and I couldn't keep a straight face all the way through. There are also lessons to be learnt from the story and it opened up discussions for me and my son to have after the story was done.

My grandfather would tell us anasi stories ALLL the time and loved them. Even now I have great memories of giggling along to his anansi stories. I don't quite have the same knack for storytelling as my grandad, but my little one certainly enjoyed this and looking forward to reading the rest.

Love this book. Nice and cultural/traditional. Took me back to my childhood, whilst I read it to my children.