(text-style:"italic","buoy")[The most magical stories are the ones that are true…]
[[Enter->Do you remember]]
Do you remember a time when you told a story that seemed too impossible to believe?
[[Yes->Was it magic]]
[[No->Memories]]
What kind of story was it? Was it (text-style:"buoy")[magical], (text-style:"shadow")[real], or (text-style:"upside-down")[make believe]?
[[Magical->You may be like nana]]
[[Real->You may be like nana]]
[[Make believe->I always tell the truth]]
Well then, you may be like 12-year-old Nana.
You see, Nana always tells (text-style:"emboss","expand")[the truth].
But everyone says the wild stories she shares are nothing but (text-style:"fade-in-out")[fibs].
[[That's not fair!->That's wrong]]
[[Well, what kind of stories were they? ->What kind of stories]]
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That's okay. Sometimes our memories are like that. But even looking back, it's hard not to wonder...
[[Wonder what?->Was it magic]]Nana thinks so too! She doesn’t know why people don’t believe her. Because she swears, a troupe of circus squirrels really did steal her teacher’s toupee.
[[That happened at my school too!->I believe]]
[[Makes sense.->I believe]]The stories Nana tells are strange and almost impossible. But no matter how many times she tries to explain herself, no one seems to want to listen.
[[I know that feeling too. ->I believe]]
[[I guess I can see where she's coming from . . . ->I believe]]When Nana lands in hot water for telling another outlandish story, her parents announce that she'll be spending the summer with her grandmother in Ghana.
[[Grandparents are the best storytellers!->Tell me more]]
[[At least her family is always there for her!->Tell me more]]But that means Nana has to miss the summer camp she’d been looking forward to all year. And she's kind of nervous about living with family she barely knows in a country where she can’t really speak the native language.
[[I know how that feels too.->Adventure]]
[[Sounds like a wonderful adventure!->Adventure]]But all her worries get a whole lot bigger—literally—when she comes face-to-face with Ananse.
[[Isn’t Ananse just the word for spider in Twi?->Twi meaning]]
[[No way. You mean Ananse from the folktales?->About Twi and Ananse]]
<img src="https://elizabethagyemang.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/maske-form-ananse-web-twine.png" width="750px"> Yes. That Ananse. The trickster spider of legend.
[[Next->Continue the story]]
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Nana soon discovers that the forest around the village is a place of magic watched over by Ananse.
[[Next ->The contractors]]
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Yes. That’s true. In Twi, the word "Ananse" means spider. But Kweku Ananse isn't just your ordinary spider. Ananse is the trickster spider of lore.
[[Wow. So what happens next?->Continue the story]]
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But a group of greedy contractors are draining the magic from the land, bottling the wishes, and selling them for their own gain.
[[What’s Nana going to do? ->Tiwaa]]
[[How is Nana going to stop the contractors? ->Tiwaa]]Nana must join forces with her cousin Tiwaa . . .
[[Next->Akwesi]]
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And new friend Akwesi . . .
[[Next->Ananse]]
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And of course, work together with the trickster Ananse himself to save the magic from those who are out to steal it before the magic—and the forest—are gone...
[[ This is going to be one epic journey! How do I find out what happens next?->Buy links]]
[[Wait a mintue!->Truth or dare]]
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[[This sounds like a fib!->Do you believe]]
[[I want to hear Nana's full story! ->Buy links]](text-style:"italic","buoy")[The most magical stories are the ones that are true…]
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Art & Text © 2021 Elizabeth Agyemang.
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Really? You don't believe Nana?
[[Yes, I don't believe this one bit!->Prove me wrong]]
[[No. I do believe. I want to see Nana's full story! ->Buy links]]Well if you want the proof for yourself, join Nana, Akwesi, Tiwaa and Ananse in their adventure to save the forest in FIBBED, coming June 7, 2022.
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[[I want to see what happens myself!->Buy links]]
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Hmmmm. . . well, Nana always tells the truth. But everyone says the wild stories she tells are fibs.
[[That's not fair!->That's wrong]]
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