Tiger Soup: An Anansi Story from Jamaica

by Frances Temple

Book Overview

The Strand Magazine, launched in January 1891, was one of the most successful and influential popular magazines of all time. Making its mark immediately with the publication of the first Sherlock Holmes stories, the magazine continued to publish high-quality detective fiction for half a million readers until 1950. Now, in the centenary of its launch, this collection offers twenty-five classic stories of mystery and detection, all first published in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531068595
• ISBN13: 9780531068595
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 10.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Excellent

We are told that the book is suitable for the four-to-eight age range, but I bought it, attracted by the truly wonderful, vivid, illustrations and read it to my two-year-old. It is currently her favourite book, she demands it many times a day and understands the story line. In addition she is attracted by the cadence of the language, and enjoys singing the words to different tunes, and making up additional words to go in Anansi's song. An excellent introduction to the Anansi stories--I hope that the author writes (and illustrates!) many more for young readers.

Tiger Soup

This was an excellent book. The Anansi stories are always a delight and this one did not let us down. My first graders were at the edge of their seats waiting to find out what Anansi would do next. They roared with laughter at the way Anansi tricked the monkeys.