And re: your comment about tricksters - some of the best-known tricksters are the Norse god Loki, Brer Fox, the Native American trickster Coyote, and Anansi/Spider in various African stories (there were very popular picture book ...

I just recently read an old post I got from a listserv I belong to and was quite happy to see that our President Elect is a fan of story. To help him to continue his communication with the American people he is collecting stories from ...

Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner; Little, Big by John Crowley; Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman; Summerland by Michael Chabon; The Wood Wife by Terri Windling; Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle; Young Merlin Trilogy by Jane Yolen ...

This week, we’ll be studying The Three Little Pigs Meet Anansi the Spider. Share your favorite resources for any or all of our current hot topics, or write us a story knitting everything together. Or just tell me I’m not alone in ...

"Anansi’s Party Time" by Eric A. Kimmel, illustrated by Janet Stevens (Holiday House, ages 5-8). Trickster spider Anansi fakes out Turtle then faces payback. Parties and payback themes make rereading a certainty. ...

I liked the article simply because of the pic haha. Ankabout is Arabic for spider by the way... It's by Neil Gaiman; it's about the god you're referencing, Anansi, who owns all the stories after he stole them from Tiger. Good book. ...

what follows is wonderful chaos. gaiman weaves a nail-biting, fantastical adventure tale about brotherly love, true love, pure revenge and heritage. how will anansi the spider rescue his bloodline and fool his foes from the grave? ...

I've long loved Anansi stories. If you can suspend disbelief for a while, you'll be rewarded with a wonderful story. Charlie and Spider discover how intertwined their gifts are and how balanced their lives can be if they work together. ...

The Lone Star Stories Reader, while functional, looks like an amateurish print-on-demand book: the vertical margins are approaching the borders, the header text is too light, and the spacing between scene breaks seem wrong. ...

In the beginning, all tales and stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. But Kwaku Anansi, the spider, yearned to be the owner of all the stories known in the world, and he went to Nyame and offered to buy them. Here's the story. ...