Aardema, Verna

Noted children's author and storyteller Verna Aardema recounts her life and describes how her daily activities and writing process are interwoven.

With the help of a blue crane, a mother dove rescues her babies from a not-so-clever jackal.

For saving the life of a snake, Ketu is rewarded by being allowed to hear animals think.

A Swahili girl is abducted by a Zimwi and told to be the voice inside his singing drum.

Relates how a young man named Kojo finally gets the better of the tricky Anansi.

Reveals the meaning of the mosquito's buzz.

A tale from the Akamba people of Kenya that explains why the ostrich has such a long neck.

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.

Lazy Anansi seeks to trick someone into doing the heavy work of laying his fish trap, but instead he is fooled into doing the job himself.

A little lamb uses her clever wiles to keep a coyote from eating her up.