Anansi and the Seven Yam Hills

Anansi and the Seven Yam Hills
Author: Elizabeth Lane (Children's author)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2003
Genre: Spiders
ISBN: 9780201322132

Anansi the Spider figures out a way to trick his friends, until Guinea Fowl figures out a way to turn the tables on Annasi.

Anansi and Turtle Go to Dinner

Anansi and Turtle Go to Dinner
Author:
Publisher: august house
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2007-12-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780874838565

After Anansi the spider tricks Turtle in order to keep his dinner for himself, Turtle turns the tables on Anansi.

Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi Stories
Author: Collected by Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2020-09-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465517057

West African Folk Tales

West African Folk Tales
Author: Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2003-04-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0486427641

Presents twenty-one traditional tales from West Africa, including "The Greedy but Cunning Tortoise," "The Boy in the Drum," and "The Magic Cooking Pot."

Children and Mother Nature

Children and Mother Nature
Author: Rouhollah Aghasaleh
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2019-08-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9004399828

It is an old, yet relevant, argument that education needs to focus more on real-world issues in students’ lives and communities. Nevertheless, conventional school curricula in many countries create superficial boundaries to separate natural and social worlds. A call for science learning approaches that acknowledge societal standpoints accumulate that human activities are driving environmental and evolutionary change which has lead scholars to investigate how different societies respond to environmental change. Children and Mother Nature is a multilingual volume that represents indigenous knowledges from various ethnic, linguistic, geographical, and national groups of educators and students through storytelling. Authors have identified indigenous stories, fables, and folk tales with a theme of human-nature interaction and facilitated storytelling sessions with groups of students in K–8 grade (5–14 years old) in Turkey, Greece, US, Jamaica, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Chinese and Korean language speaking communities in the US. Students have discussed and rewritten/retold the stories collaboratively and illustrated their own stories. All student-told stories are presented in the original language along with an English translation. This volume provides authentic materials for teachers to use in their classrooms and could also be of interest to educational, literary, and environmental researchers to conduct comparative and international studies.

Homegoing

Homegoing
Author: Yaa Gyasi
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101947144

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.