Hello and welcome to the best of Super Great Kids Stories.
We're releasing one popular story from our archive on a Wednesday in the middle of each month.
The story this month is Anansi and the Chest of Stories and it's told by the inimitable Toop.
It was first featured on the podcast in February 2022. Anansi
the Trickster Spider wants Nyami the Sky God's box of stories.
But it's not going to be easy.
He has to face lots of challenges to get it.
But with a little trickery, anything is possible.
Listen to Toop telling this lively story from West Africa.
You know, in all parts of the world, they have different ways of introducing a story.
If I was to say to you, Crick, could you reply?
Let's go.
Here is a story about Anansi, who is a trickster.
Aniyami, the sky god.
You know Anansi is half man and half spider.
And you know Anansi is the great-great-grandfather of Incy Wincy Spider.
And you know Anansi comes from Africa, West Africa.
Well, Anansi one day was thinking to himself, you know something.
I've heard that the sky god Nayami has a chest.
And in that chest, there are all the stories, all the wishes,