A Story, A Story: An African Tale

Written and illustrated by Gail E. Haley.

The book is about how the trickster Anansi obtained stories from the Sky God to give to the children of the earth. 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 and went 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-man-never-see. This book is about how Ananse paid the price.