Anansi & the Talking Watermeloon

Super Great Kids' Stories

Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Stories For Kids

4.5 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Anansi is up to his tricks again. Following a greedy feeding-frenzy he tries to distract elephant and his friends by persuading them that watermelons can talk. Does he succeed? Listen to this lively story from the Caribbean told by Wendy Shearer and find out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories, wise tales from storytellers around the world,
0:22.9	which will make you laugh and sometimes cry.
0:27.3	Recommended for ages 5 to 105.
0:32.6	I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:36.1	Today we have an Anansi Trickster tale for you from the sunny Caribbean, told by Wendy Shearer.
0:45.3	It's called Anansy and the Talking Watermelon.
0:51.0	How are you, super great kids?
0:54.0	It's February, a new month and a little bit closer to spring in the northern part of the world.
1:01.9	I wonder if you can think of something that happened this week that made you happy.
1:07.6	This morning I received a beautiful drawing from seven-year-old Emmett, one of our listeners in Stockholm in Sweden.
1:15.6	She was inspired by our recent fairy tale from China, the luminous pearl.
1:21.9	She drew two magnificent sea dragons guarding the underwater treasure cave. Well, that made my heart sing. So thank
1:31.8	you, Emmett. You can see her picture on our website, supergreatkidstories.com. And some of you made
1:40.3	storyteller Amy Douglas very happy this weekend. She was storytelling live in London,
1:47.3	and she said you were all really good at joining in with the stories. So thanks very much to
1:53.9	super great fans, Jonah, Finn, Rosa, Ivy, and to all of the rest of you who came.
2:04.1	And if you fancy some storytelling this weekend,
2:07.2	then you might like to join Paul Aldebra,
2:11.2	who told the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel,
2:13.8	recently on Super Great Kids' stories.
2:20.8	He'll be telling tales at our regular monthly show online with Jason Buck and Amy Douglas this Sunday, February 8th. For tickets, look under news on our website, supergreatkidstories.com.
2:30.7	Now, as I mentioned, this week's story is an Anansi the Spider-Trixter story.
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