West African Folk-Tales (Yesterday's Classics) Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography - Social Activists / African American & Black / Biography & Autobiography - Performing Arts " —Booklist

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Topics range from using racial incidents as teachable moments and responding to the "n-word" to valuing students' home worlds

Age Range:  13 - 18

Before there was a little house on the prairie

West African Folk-Tales (Yesterday's Classics) Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography - Social Activists / African American & Black / Biography & Autobiography - Performing Arts " —BooklistA delightful collection of folk tales from West Africa including 18 Anansi tales, as well as 17 others. Includes the story of how the tales came to be called Anansi tales. In the olden days all the stories which men told were stories of Nyankupon, the chief of the gods. Spider wanted the stories to be about him. Nyankupon agreed, on one condition, namely that he bring him three things: a jar full of live bees, a boa constrictor, and a tiger. How