Norfolk, Bobby

In this story from West Africa, Anansi uses his wits, his trickster skills, and the help of his friends to bring light to the world.

Billy Brown, having failed to heed his mother's warning to stay covered while he sleeps, awakens one morning to find his perfectly round brown belly button gone, and then tries to trick the Belly Button Beastie into giving it back.

Storyteller Bobby Norfolk shares five folktales from Africa, Eastern Europe, Appalachia, and Ireland.

Storyteller Bobby Norfolk presents modern adaptations of traditional Ghanian tales of Anansi, the trickster spider.

Anansi the spider uses brain power to teach Elephant and Killer Whale to be respectful of smaller, weaker creatures.

While helping his Grandma Spider, Anansi cannot resist her steaming hot pot of beans, despite her warnings to stay away.

In this story from West Africa, Anansi uses his wits, his trickster skills, and the help of his friends to bring light to the world.

A guide to using storytelling and folktales in character education that includes twelve stories that can be used in different lessons and additional sources of folktales that would be suitable for classroom use.