How Elephant Lost His Bottom and Other Ananse Stories

It’s here, It’s here! Book 5 in the African Fireside Classics series is here!

How Elephant Lost His Bottom and Other Ananse Stories is now available in ebook form. You can grab it at:

Cover of How Elephant Lost His Bottom and other Ananse Stories.

Why do chickens have beaks?
Why do crickets have black teeth?
Why do spiders have big bottoms?
Why do crocodiles hide their ears?

The short answer is …drumroll please… Ananse did it!

How Elephant Lost His Bottom and Other Ananse Stories has the long answers about how these and many other things came to be.

All the stories feature Kweku Ananse, the trickster, who is sometimes a man and sometimes a spider. Follow along as he works his mischief—discover why spiders look the way they do, why termites are always angry and what happened to the crocodile’s ears.

List of Stories:

How Elephant Lost His Bottom
How the Zebra Mouse Got its Stripes
Why Crickets Have Black Teeth
Why Termites Destroy Things
Why Crocodile Hides His Ears
Why People Hate Contradiction
Why Spiders Have Big Bottoms
Why Spiders Are Flat
How Ananse Lost His Hair
Why the Spider Has a Small Waist
Why Spiders Gather Under Stones
Why Chickens Have Beaks

I hope you enjoy How Elephant Lost His Bottom and Other Ananse Stories. I had lots of fun writing it. For now, it is available at these and other stores:

Wait, there’s more:

If you’re new to my series of African folktales, there are four more books for your reading pleasure. Check them out on the books page.

The paperback and audiobook versions of all the books including How Elephant Lost His Bottom and Other Ananse Stories, are in the works.

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