One fine morning Anansi the Spider sat high up in a thorn tree looking down into Elephant's garden Elephant was hoe ing his melon patch The ripe melons seemed to call out to Anansi Look how juicy and sweet we are Come eat us
Anansi loved to eat melons but he was much too lazy to grow them himself So he sat up in the thorn tree watching and waiting while the sun rose high in the sky and the day grew warm By the time noon came it was too hot to work Elephant put down his hoe and went inside his house to take a nap Here was the moment Anansi had been waiting for He broke off a thorn and dropped down into the melon patch He used the thorn to bore a hole in the biggest ripest melon
Anansi and the Talking Melon
A spider tricks other animals into thinking a melon can talk.
About This Book
By: Eric A. Kimmel
Illustrated by: Janet Stevens
Published by: Live Oak Media provided by Lerner Publishing Group
