This retelling of a traditional African folktale explains how we came to have stories in the world. Nyame the sky god has a special treasure - in a big, brass chest are all the stories ever told. Anansi, the cleverest of spiders, sees that down on Earth, the people are bored. Unfortunately, she can't spin a tale, but she can spin a web. So, she makes a ladder up into the sky, determined to bring back the stories, whatever it takes.

 

This book is part of a book series called White Wolves .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Andrew Fusek Peters is Britain's tallest poet. He travels the country visiting schools with his weird and wonderful poems, plays and digeridu and juggles a bit. Andrew lives in an old chapel in Shropshire with his wife and young daughter.