In this comic retelling of an African story, Anansi plays a trick on Turtle so that he does not have to share his dinner, but his victim subsequently gets his revenge on the greedy spider and teaches him a lesson. The simple text is well matched by Emma Shaw Smith's bold and colourful style of illustration, underlining the humour of tale. The Big Book version includes two pages of related puzzles and a section for teachers with ideas on how the book might be used.