This story is an African Folktale that explains how the Africans got their stories. Ananse, the Spider Man, wished to buy the Sky God's stories. After visiting Nyame, the Sky God, Ananse is given three impossible tasks to complete in order to win these stories. The clever ways Ananse complete these tasks will entertain the readers of A Story A Story.
A Story A Story won the Caldecot Medal in 1970. It is written in rich text and is illustrated in the folk artistic style with mostly soft, neutral colors. The illustrations compliment the text by enhancing the story. Gail Haley used repetition such as "So Ananse tied the leopard by his foot, by his foot, by his foot, by his foot" in several places in the book. I found it interesting that there were no page numbers in this book. The fact that this story is written in third-person omniscient and you knew what the characters in the story were thinking, made the story enjoyable. The literary device onomatopoeia was used to describe sounds that the Sun God made when he chuckled("twe,twe,twe"), and the running feet of Ananse (" yiridi, yiridi, yiridi"). These fun sound will make it fun for the children to hear and repeat.
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