While Tiger was minding his own business cooking down by the Blue Hole, a spider named Anansi smelled the fresh coconut, mango and nutmeg simmering in Tiger’s soup. Anansi really wanted some of the soup but he didn’t want Tiger to see him eat it. Tiger doesn’t swim a lot, but Anansi convinced Tiger that he should go for a swim while the soup cools. Tiger assumed that Anansi would be swimming with him, but Anansi had another idea: to quickly eat the soup. As soon as he finished all of the soup, Anasi ran away to Little Monkey Town, hoping that Tiger wouldn’t find him there. While Anansi is in there, he taught the monkeys a new song. Before Anansi knew it, all the monkeys were singing and dancing to the song. Eventually, Tiger showed up looking for Anansi. When Tiger heard the song that the monkeys were singing, he began to get angry. Tiger told the monkeys “you ate the tiger soup, and now, the tiger going to eat-you”. As Tiger prepared to roar, the monkeys got scared and quickly swung up into the treetop; and this is the reason that monkeys live in trees to this day.
Throughout most of the book, Anansi could be considered a main character. At the end of the book we don’t know what happened to him, we just have to make assumptions. So, after reading this book to the class, I would have them write an explanation of what happened to Anansi which they would then share with the rest of the class. The students can be creative and make up their own reasons as to why a spider might not be best friends with a monkey or tiger.
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