The Adventures of Spider
Subtitle: West African Folk Tales
Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Juv)
Published: July 1973
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780316051064
Subjects: Africa, West; Anansi (Legendary character); Folklore; Legends; Tales; Children: Grades 4-6
First sentence: MANY dry seasons ago, before the oldest man in our village can remember, before the rain and the dry and the rain and the dry that any one of us can talk about to his children, Spider was a very big person.