Anansi and the Talking Cloth by Brewer, Caroline
Anansi and the Talking Cloth by Brewer, Caroline

Anansi and the Talking Cloth

Illustrated by Caldecott Honor Award winner Ekua Holmes, this modern and original Anansi the Spider story explores...
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Author: Caroline Brewer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Anansi and the Talking Cloth by Brewer, Caroline

Anansi and the Talking Cloth

$21.58
Anansi and the Talking Cloth by Brewer, Caroline

Anansi and the Talking Cloth

$21.58
Author: Caroline Brewer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Illustrated by Caldecott Honor Award winner Ekua Holmes, this modern and original Anansi the Spider story explores traditional kente-cloth making, written by award-winner Caroline Brewer, in cooperation with weaving expert Kwasi Asare.

When kente-cloth weavers stop weaving, Anansi the Spider must save the city in this rhythmic African folktale, a rhyming read-aloud trickster picture book.

This rhyming and rhythmic original Anansi fable finds Anansi the Spider needing to save the city. One day the sun stops shining because the kente-cloth making spiders stop weaving in protest against mass-produced cloth. Handmade kente cloth has made Africa famous and the spider city wealthy. Without it, the city is doomed.

Anansi faces the biggest challenge of his spider life, and his clever trickster past, coupled with help from his wife, will restore harmony.

Author Caroline Brewer and master kente-cloth weaver Kwasi Asare worked together to create this fresh take featuring the African trickster Anansi the Spider, a classic hero.

Author: Caroline Brewer
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Published: 08/25/2026
Pages: 40
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.78h x 9.85w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9781623544218
Audience: Ages 4-8


Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2026 pg. 67
Booklist 07/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 07/27/2026

About the Author
Caroline Brewer is an award-winning children's book author, artist, environmentalist, literacy consultant, and creator of Nature-Wise, a program for students and teachers that blends literacy and nature exploration. Caroline is also author and illustrator of Harriet Tubman, Force of Nature and author of Say Their Names. She lives in the Washington, DC, metro area.

Kwasi Asare was born in Nsawam, near the capital city of Accra, Ghana, and is one of Africa's most prominent and accomplished weavers known for kente cloth, the highly prized Ghanaian cloth that traditionally symbolizes royalty, honor, and leadership. For the United Nations' fiftieth anniversary in 1995, he created a new kente cloth design. Until 2017, it replaced the original cloth created by Kwasi's father, A. E. Asare. www.kwasiasare.com

Ekua Holmes was awarded a Caldecott Honor, Coretta Scott King's John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, Robert Siebert Award, and Boston Globe-Horn Book award for Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement, her first illustration project. She won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration twice: Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets and Stuff of Stars. www.ekuaholmes.com
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