Anans and Turtle Go to Dinner [Paperback]

In this trickster tale from Africa, Anans?? learns the value of being a good host. He also learns the truth of the old saying, ???What goes around, comes around.???A timeless trickster tale from Africa about silly spider, Anans??.This story provides another classic African folktale about the trickster spider Anans??. First off, it is a custom that whenever a guest arrives at mealtime that the host share his or her food with the guest, whether the visitor is invited or shows up uninvited. In this folktale, Anans?? learns that Turtle is coming over and that he must share his dinner with Turtle. Being the trickster that he is, Anans?? figures out a way to trick Turtle so that he can keep all of the food for himself. Of course, when Turtle realizes what Anans?? has done, he is determined to teach Anans?? a lesson. While author, Bobby Norfolk was visiting the town of Kumasi in Ghana in the summer of 1993, a woman told him, At four-thirty every afternoon, we try to gather together and have Anansi time. Norfolk attended the afternoon break and heard elders tell stories of Anansi, the tireless trickster of Ghanian tradition. Anansi appears in these stories in his most playful and creative guises. The Norfolks' adaptations brim with action, energy, and humor.Bobby Norfolk Bio:From Kindergarten to the Tenth Grade, Bobby Norfolk stuttered. He was so self-conscious about his impediment that he retreated into books. Luckily, he had some master teachers in the St. Louis Public Schools who saw a potential in him that he had yet to see in himself. They put him in drama class, glee club - even a talent show judged by country music legend, Mel Tillis. Fortunately, when Bobby performed, he discovered that he didn???t stutter!In books, young Norfolk found his troubles fused with those of heroes whose epic struggles captured his imagination. Eventually, the stutter disappeared. As a young adult, Bobby Norfolk became an actor and stand-up comedian. He became an opening act for the l#K