A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.

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.

This traditional West African folktale, with echoes reminiscent of Aesop's fables, provides young children with valuable lessons about our environment and the relationship between people and nature.

"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...

32 tales, selected by Nelson Mandela, retold by Jack Cope [and others] and illustrated by Neels Britz [and others].

An African tale in which an adventurous princess does not want to get married until she has faced the Mother of Monsters.

A farmer finds an eagle and raises it to behave like a chicken, until a friend helps the eagle learn to find its rightful place in the sky.

Python has wrapped himself around the tree with its delicious fruit, and he won't share the fruit unless the animals can tell him the correct name of the tree.

In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky.

Collects ten stories of African folklore, from Amharic and Arabic tales to Shona and Zulu lore.