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Title: Anansi the Spider
Author: Gerald McDermott
Scholastic
Award: Caldecott Honor Award
Genre: Traditional (folk-hero)
This is the story of Anansi the spider getting lost far away and having the spiders six children use their strengths to find him. One of the six can see trouble, about was a road builder, another was a river drinker, then a game skinner, and a stone thrower, and lastly there was a soft one called Cushion. The story begins with Anansi getting lost and swallowed by a fish and See Trouble sees him and tells the other five siblings. They use each of their talents to help save their father. Road Builder builds a road to get to him, River Drinker drinks all of the water form the river so they can find his fish, Game Skinner then skins the fish and they get to their father! Next, a falcon comes and sweeps up Anansi and Stone Thrower uses his strength to throw a stone to make the falcon drop their father. Finally, Cushion runs underneath his father to catch him and give him a soft landing. Finally, they can all go home safe and sound!
This book can give an extremely important lesson to students in school! I love the team work that Anansi's six children used to search, find, and retrieve him. I think it is so important for students to learn how to use teamwork, and to learn that everybody is different and have different strengths and weaknesses, while realizing that everybody can play a huge part in so many things and that it is okay to share the spotlight! Sharing is caring!
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