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Anansi envies the figs and devises a trick using sticky beeswax to collect fruit while claiming he needs live coal for his fire. When his story is challenged, he turns to tears for sympathy, even driving the crows away from their own harvest. Finally, Anansi escapes by jumping, only to land among crocodiles who, moved by his crying, treat him as a long-lost relative.","Anansi, the crows, and the crocodiles  \nWriter: Ghanaian folktale Illustration: Wiehan de Jager  \nEnglish Story Book  \nAnansi, the crows, and the crocodiles  \nWriter: Ghanaian folktale Illustration: Wiehan de Jager  \nEnglish  \nAnansi, the crows, and the crocodiles Writer: Ghanaian folktale  \nIllustration: Wiehan de Jager  \nCopyright © 2014, African Storybook Initiative  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nOne day there was a great famine in the land. No one had anything to eat except the crows.  \nEach morning they flew a long distance to where there was a tree with ripe figs in the middle of a wide river. Then they flew back with the figs for themselves and their relatives.  \nThe sight of so many figs made Anansi's mouth water. How could he get them for himself?  \nHe thought of a plan. He carefully covered his bottom with sticky beeswax. Then he took a piece of  \nclay pot and went to see the crows.“Please could you help me?” he asked.“I need a live coal to get my fire going again.”  \nAs they were getting the coal from the fire, Anansi carefully sat firmly on one of the largest figs, so that it would stick to his bottom. He thanked the crows, and hurried home to enjoy the fig.  \nBut one fig wasn’t enough for him. He went back a second time, and did the same. When he went back a third time, the crows began to get suspicious.“Why do you keep coming back to us to get a coal?”they said. Anansi answered,  \n“Every time when I get home, the coal has burnt out.”“You’re lying!” said the crows.“You just want our food!”  \n“That’s not true,” said Anansi.  \nAnd he started crying.  \nThe crows felt sorry for him. The next morning at first light, each crow gave him a feather. He flew with them to the fig tree in the middle of the wide river. When he saw the luscious figs, Anansi wanted them all for himself.  \nEach time a crow tried to pick a fig, he shouted out,“That one is mine! I saw it first!” And then he took the fig and put it into his bag. Eventually he had all the figs and the crows had none.  \nHe was left all alone as the darkness began to fall.“If I don’t want to stay in this tree for the rest of my life,” he said to himself, “I’ll just have to jump into the air like the crows”.  \nSo he took a deep breath, jumped, and…PLOP!  \nHe fell into the river right among the crocodiles.  \n“What do we have here?” said a gruff crocodile voice.“A tasty morsel to eat, nyum…”  \n“Oh please don’t,” said Anansi. And he began to cry.“I’m one of you, don’t you know? I got lost in the days of your grandfathers and no one was able to find  \nme. You’re the first of my relatives I’ve ever met!”He cried so much that the crocodiles felt sorry for him.","cbCaivQJSk7i40Uc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivQJSk7i40Uc","pdf",23807207,17,"English","en",105,"# Plot\n## The famine and the crows' fig-runs\n## Anansi’s plan and deception\n## Tears, feathers, and the final escape","[{\"question\":\"Why are the crows so important to the story?\",\"answer\":\"During a great famine, the only food comes from the figs the crows bring back each morning. They become Anansi’s source of access to the fruit.\"},{\"question\":\"What plan does Anansi use to get the figs?\",\"answer\":\"He covers himself with sticky beeswax and uses it to keep a fig attached to his bottom while he secretly takes fruit from the tree.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Anansi end up with the crocodiles?\",\"answer\":\"After taking all the figs, Anansi tries to escape by jumping like the crows. 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