A Big Book of Little Stories Book 5: Chapter 2 Anansi and the Talking Watermelon

Listen Up: A Reading Adventure with John Maytham · 4 November 2025 · 3m

Speaker 1: Chapter two, Annsy and the Talking Watermelon. One fine morning, a Nanncy the Spider sat Speaker 1: high up in a thorn tree, watching the elephant hard at work raking his watermelon Speaker 1: patch. A Nuncey became hungrier and hungrier. I love watermelons, but they are so hard Speaker 1: to grow. I must have one. At midday, the elephant went to rest. This was Speaker 1: the moment Nancy had been waiting for. He broke off a thorn and used it Speaker 1: to make a hole in the biggest, ripest melon. Now's my chance. My stomach is Speaker 1: rumbling. A Nunsy squeezed through the hole into the watermelon and started eating. He et Speaker 1: and et until he was as round as a ball. Yesh, this is tight. After Speaker 1: eating the whole watermelon and none see was too fat to get out. My tummy Speaker 1: is so fool I will never be able to get out of this watermelon. The Speaker 1: Nansi sat inside the watermelon wondering what to do next. Just then he heard elephant Speaker 1: coming back to the garden. That was when a Nunsi had an idea. When elephant Speaker 1: gets closer, I will talk. He will think the watermelon is talking. The elephant was Speaker 1: about to pick up the watermelon. When he heard it talking, he listened carefully. Yes, Speaker 1: the watermelon was talking. This was something the king should see. And talking melon. Who Speaker 1: could believe it? I must show this to the king. Look at me, I am Speaker 1: the watermelon king. The king was surprised when the elephant gave him the watermelon. The Speaker 1: king liked special gifts. A watermelon was not a…

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