For Teachers & Librarians
Anansi stories are part of the living oral tradition of Jamaica and the wider Caribbean — trickster tales passed down for generations, teaching cleverness, consequence, and community wisdom. Each episode here is an original retelling of a traditional Anansi legend, brought to life through animation and Jamaican dialect, with Miss Reta as the storyteller.
Why Anansi in the classroom?
These stories offer an accessible entry point into Caribbean oral tradition and folklore studies, model problem-solving and cause-and-effect thinking, and introduce Jamaican Patois in a warm, low-stakes context. Each episode below is short enough for a single class period, with a clear moral takeaway for discussion afterward.
Episodes
Anansi and the Hornets
How the stories stopped being called "Tiger stories" and became "Anansi stories" — Anansi outsmarts a swarm of hornets using nothing but cleverness and a calabash gourd, winning ownership of the world's stories from Tiger.
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More Anansi Tales
New episodes are added regularly — check back soon for more classic Jamaican Anansi legends, retold for the classroom and the living room alike.
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