A Story, a Story
A picture book retelling a West African Anansi tale about how stories came to people on earth. Its woodcut-style imagery and rhythmic repetition emphasize the power of storytelling and cultural transmission.
Work Information
A story about how stories began.
A classic Anansi retelling in which Gail E. Haley's text and illustrations work as one.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Aladdin
- Published
- 1988-02-28
- Pages
- 36 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 25.72 x 0.76 x 25.4 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780689712012
- ISBN-10
- 0689712014
- Price
- 1937 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Children's Books/Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths/Multicultural
Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal–winning picture book. Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet-who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy-whom-men-never-see. Can Ananse capture these sly creatures and give the children of earth stories to tell?
Gail E. Haley is a prolific author and illustrator. Her time living in the Caribbean inspired her book A Story, a Story , and she traced the folklore she heard there to their African origins, which she studied extensively before capturing with woodcuts that she cut and printed herself. She lives and works in New York with her family, surrounded by a large collection of early children’s books, toys, games, and dolls going back to the seventeenth century.
Reviews
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This book is an important read for a multicultural classroom.
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my son loves this! He knows it from the chicka chicka boom boom dvd
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Brilliantly witty folk story from Africa for young children, 5 to 7 year olds
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I bought this book for the story to read aloud and was amazed at the lovely illustrations. It is a book that will be reread and looked at for a long time to come.
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My son love's it....!