Anansi and the Big Buzz <oi> <oy>

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Words containing 'oi' or 'oy' vowel teams, making the /ɔɪ/ diphthong sound.

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: A massive fig tree is covered in golden-red figs and swarming hornets while worried, hungry villagers watch from a safe distance. Painted cement compound houses with corrugated roofs sit in the background, and a few villagers wear trainers at the dusty edge. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed toward the RIGHT. Keep the LEFT 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That LEFT 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the LEFT 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

The big fig tree has the best figs in town. But hornets come and spoil it all.

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: Grandmother Akosua sprints from a furious hornet swarm in comic panic beside a painted doorway. Her bright T-shirt and small kente-pattern apron flare as her scarf flies loose and her basket spills, while frightened hungry villagers peek from behind doorways. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed toward the LEFT. Keep the RIGHT 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That RIGHT 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the RIGHT 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

The swarm buzzes at all who come near. It gets a goat, a bug, a boy. Gran and her bag fall down. She runs fast.

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: Anansi (match attached reference) stands at the base of a massive fig tree, one leg raised to his chin, scheming as he peers up at a hornet swarm in the branches. Sunset-coloured figs hang above him. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed in the lower part of the frame. Keep the TOP 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That TOP 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the TOP 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

Anansi is mad for figs. The town calls for figs, too. 'I will get the figs,' he says in a big voice. No one else can help.

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: Anansi (match attached reference) hands a small golden coin to Kofi (match attached reference), who shrugs while holding Kofi's hollow-log drum (match attached reference) under one arm. They stand in the jungle near a dark ravine with a river at the bottom. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed toward the RIGHT. Keep the LEFT 50% text area genuinely open inside a smooth, low-detail gradient blur covering the LEFT 60% of the image. Use only a plain, continuous continuation of the scene background there, with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations. Keep all important characters and detailed scene content in the RIGHT 40%, with only a soft natural fade into the blurred left text area. That LEFT 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the LEFT 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

Anansi finds Kofi. He gives Kofi a coin. 'Take the drum down to the deep pit,' he says. 'Beat it. Do not stop.' Kofi nods and goes.

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: Anansi (match attached reference) crouches on a low fig tree branch with one leg raised theatrically, sweet-talking the silent hornet swarm. The Hornet Queen (match attached reference) and her cloud turn toward him among trembling wings and heavy golden-red fruit. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed toward the LEFT. Keep the RIGHT 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That RIGHT 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the RIGHT 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

Anansi goes up near the swarm. They turn to face him. 'Great hornets, I know a thing,' he says. The swarm makes no noise. They wish to know things.

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: The Hornet Queen (match attached reference) rears up angrily as her swarm buzzes around her. Anansi (match attached reference) quietly slips backward along a branch with an innocent face, his clothing partly hidden by glossy fig leaves. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed in the lower part of the frame. Keep the TOP 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That TOP 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the TOP 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

'A new swarm sits in the pit,' says Anansi. 'Big hornets. They say the queen has a dull buzz.' The queen starts to boil. 'Buzz more! Prove we are best!' she yells.

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: Hornets hover frozen near a fig tree, listening toward a ravine across the river. In the ravine, Kofi (match attached reference) beats Kofi's hollow-log drum (match attached reference), sweat on his brow, with dust-coloured sound curls rising from it. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed toward the RIGHT. Keep the LEFT 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That LEFT 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the LEFT 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

The swarm sits back down. Then a drum rolls out. boom, boom, boom. It is just like a new swarm. Far off, Kofi toils at his drum. Is it a true swarm?

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: Anansi (match attached reference) cups his legs around his mouth and whispers to The Hornet Queen (match attached reference), who is furious. The Hornet Queen has blazing eyes and twitching antennae, while the swarm leans in and drifts toward the river. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed toward the LEFT. Keep the RIGHT 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That RIGHT 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the RIGHT 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

Anansi comes near. 'Look, queen! They mock the swarm,' he says. The queen's eyes are mad. 'We will all join and buzz in their faces!' 'Yes,' Anansi nods. 'Buzz more! Prove we are best!'

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: Kofi (match attached reference) sprints into the deep forest with Kofi's hollow-log drum (match attached reference) under his arm as the hornet swarm, including The Hornet Queen (match attached reference), streams toward the empty ravine. The fig tree stands alone and unguarded behind them. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed in the lower part of the frame. Keep the TOP 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That TOP 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the TOP 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

All the swarm heads off to the pit. Kofi sees them come. He hoists his drum and runs to the wood. The swarm falls down in the pit. They find only roots, but no one is there.

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: Anansi (match attached reference) waves everyone in under the fig tree while villagers pick dark-red figs, and Grandmother Akosua fills three baskets. Enamel bowls and cloth bundles brim with figs, while a distant golden cloud of hornets, including The Hornet Queen (match attached reference), moves back across the river. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed toward the RIGHT. Keep the LEFT 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That LEFT 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the LEFT 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

Anansi runs back. 'Come, all! Bring the pots!' he calls. The town runs out and grabs figs fast. They eat as they grab. Gran fills three pots with joy. Then a mad buzz comes near...

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: Anansi (match attached reference) swings away on a silk thread, grinning and holding up one fat fig. Behind him, The Hornet Queen (match attached reference), furious, reaches the stripped-bare fig tree as Anansi disappears toward the village path. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed toward the LEFT. Keep the RIGHT 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That RIGHT 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the RIGHT 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

The swarm buzzes back, mad and loud. Anansi grabs one last fat fig. He falls down a coil of web, fast as a bug. The swarm finds no figs at all. Anansi runs off fast.

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Create a single full-page children's book illustration. Use the attached character reference images and match each named character exactly — same shapes, colours and clothing; do not redesign them. SCENE: Anansi (match attached reference) sits happily at the centre of a log table during a village feast. Children dance with fig-stained hands around palm-nut soup in metal pots, with patterned cloth on the table and corrugated-roofed rooftops under the stars. COMPOSITION: Compose ONE full-bleed scene with a single continuous background that fills the whole image, characters at natural size placed in the lower part of the frame. Keep the TOP 50% text area genuinely open — plain, continuous background with NO characters, objects, props, hanging items, plants, patterns or decorations in it — while the rest of the scene fills the frame naturally. That TOP 50% text area must be the SAME continuous background colour as the scene (not a flat panel, not a different shade, no dividing line). Do NOT shrink or squash the characters. Book text will be overlaid in the TOP 50% text area. Do not include any written text, letters, numbers, captions, speech bubbles, signs, labels, logos, or watermarks anywhere; the image must be purely illustrative.

Now the town eats figs and soup. Drums play. Anansi sits in the best seat. He eats till he is round as the moon. He beat the swarm with a ploy, not toil. The hornets fly far off to a new tree. When a big head looks for a fight, we say, 'Buzz more! Prove we are best!'

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