Fiction readers

Relates a tale from West Africa that describes how Anansi, a spider, came to have eight thin legs.

A queen, looking for a princess for her son to marry, tests a woman who comes to her castle claiming to be a princess by having her sleep on a bed of twenty mattresses with a pea on the bottom to find out if she feels it.

Using her imagination, Anna travels to places all around the world in alphabetical order.