(4) K-3 Illustrated by Julie Paschkis. In this Anansi story (which previously appeared in the retellers' Why Leopard Has Spots), Spider refuses to help his neighbors with the work on their communal farm. Later, when he tries to help himself to the ripened crops, the vegetables won't allow it: "You didn't help make the farm. Go away!" This retelling ends anticlimactically, but Paschkis's folk-art-like gouache illustrations are dynamic.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Julie Paschkis. With no arms or legs, Head can eat only things on the ground. While dreaming of out-of-reach cherries, he meets up with two Arms who can't see. Other body parts come along, and after they sort themselves out, the newly whole person stands up and picks mangoes. This simple fable about working together is told in a straightforward text; humor is inherent in the situation. Enticing illustrations in ripe fruit colors enhance the strange, silly tale.

Reviewer: Lauren Adams | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2002