One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the kids. When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts"...

A clever spider tricks Elephant and some other animals into thinking the melon in which he is hiding can talk.

Anansi and his wife outsmart the Sky God and win back the beloved folktales of their people.

Ananse the spider thinks he will marry the daughter of the village chief, but instead he is outsmarted by Lizard.

In trying to determine which of his six sons to reward for saving his life, Anansi the Spider is responsible for placing the moon in the sky.

A bilingual folk tale in which Brother Anansi persuades Brother Tiger to go into the cattle-raising business.

Long ago in Africa, the sky god Nyame keeps all of the stories to himself, but when Anansi the spider asks their price, Nyame agrees to trade his stories if Anansi can perform four seemingly impossible tasks.

What happens when Anansi, king of the spiders, is given a wonderful present? You can find out in this lively retelling of a tradition African tale, with easy-to-read text and fun puzzles to try after the story.

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called "Spider Stories."