Some of the authors cited in the bibliography below give credit by name to the storytellers from whom they learned these tales, and so I want to start with the names of those storytellers, keepers of the tradition: Alexander Archibald, Vivian Bailey, Thomas Bailly, Sherman Adolphus Ballantyne, George Barrett, Frederik Bekker, Johan Bekker, Magdalena Bekker, Edwin Bundel, John Alexander Burleigh, Len Cabral, Samuel Christie, Benjamin Collins, Anderson Cook, William Cooper, Grace Doran, George Edwards, Simeon Falconer, William Forbes, Julia Gentle, Alexander Hazel, Moses Hendricks, Emile Heyward, Elizabeth Hilton, Adolphus Iron, Emanuel Johnson, Stanley Jones, Matilda Josepha, Hilton Libert, Rennie Macfarlane, Joseph Macfarlane, Richard Morgan, George Parkes, Richard Pottinger, Mrs. Ramtalli, Michael “Boss Mike” Richard, Evelyn Smith, Henry Spence, Charles Thompson, Harold Tulloch, Sarah Vassel, Rafael Weeks, Thomas White, and Charles Wright.
For story-specific bibliography and notes, visit:
Anansi.LauraGibbs.net
Abrahams, Roger D. African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World.
Beckwith, Martha Warren. Jamaica Anansi Stories.
Berry, James. Spiderman Anancy.
Charles, Faustin. Under the Storyteller’s Spell: Folk-Tales from the Caribbean.
Courlander, Harold. The Drum and the Hoe: Life and Lore of the Haitian People.
D’Oyley, Enid F. Animal Fables and Other Tales: African Tales in the New World.
Dance, Daryl C. Folklore from Contemporary Jamaicans.
Dasent, George Webbe. Popular Tales From the Norse: Appendix.
Denham, Bish. Anansi and Company: Retold Jamaican Tales.
Edwards, Charles L. Bahama Songs and Stories.
Elswit, Sharon Barcan. Caribbean Story Finder.
Grannum-Solomon, Victorine. Anansi Folktales in the Diaspora.
Hallworth, Grace. Listen to This Story.
Herskovits, Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits. Suriname Folklore.
Hull, Robert. Caribbean Stories.
Ishmael, Odeen. The Magic Pot: Nansi Stories from the Caribbean.
Jagendorf, M. A. and R. S. Boggs. The King of the Mountains: A Treasury of Latin American Folk Stories.
Jekyll, Walter. Jamaican Song and Story.
Johnson, John H. Folklore from Antigua, British West Indies.
London, Clement B. G. Caribbean Visions in Folktales.
McKenzie, Everal. Anancy Stories.
Parsons, Elsie Clews. Folklore of the Antilles.
Sherlock, Philip. Anansi the Spider Man.
Sherlock, Philip. West Indian Folk-Tales.
Smith, Pamela Colman. Annancy Stories.
Steele, Beverley A. and Bruce St John. Tim Tim Tales from Grenada.
Wona. A Selection of Anancy Stories.
Young, Richard and Judy Dockrey Young. African-American Folktales for Young Readers.
