Anansi and the Talking Melon

Anansi and the Talking Melon book cover — 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 and the Talking Melon — page 1 — 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

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