Anansi finds a fool
Subtitle: an Ashanti tale
By: Verna Aardema ; pictures by Bryna Waldman.
Contributors: Waldman, Bryna, ill.; Rattray, R. S. 1881-1938.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Anansi (Legendary character) -- Legends.; Anansi (Legendary character) -- Legends.; Folklore -- Africa, West.
Description: Lazy Anansi seeks to trick someone into doing the heavy work of laying his fish trap, but instead he is fooled into doing the job himself.
Notes: A retelling of Robert S. Rattray's story beginning on p. 253 in his book, Akan-Ashanti folk-tales published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1930.