A Story, A Story by Gail E Haley
Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the spider man, are called, Spider Stories. This book is about how that came to be.The African storyteller begins: We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go.
And it tells that long, 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 up 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-men-never-see.
How Ananse paid the price is told in a graceful and clever text, with forceful, lovely woodcut illustrations.
Gail E.Haley had a long and illustrious career as a writer and illustrator of children's books, having written and illustrated over forty titles. Noah's Ark, A Tale A Story, and Two Bad Boys, for example, have all been praised for their social concern toward endangered people and animals. She is the only person in the world to have received both the Caldecott Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal, as well as the Kadai Tosho (Japan). She worked at Appalachian State University as a Writer in Residence for fourteen years. She has given workshops and talks at universities all around the United States.
Canada, England, Australia, and South Africa are among the countries represented. Her textual descriptions of ladies who emerged from the darkness of dark and forbidden territory--denizens of a mental institution early in the twentieth century--have been given a vividness by her illustrator's eye.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780689712012 |
| ISBN 10 | 0689712014 |
| Title | A Story, A Story |
| Author | Gail E Haley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) |
| Year published | 1988-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 36 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |