Anansi and the Big Pot <es>

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Mythology Decodable Reader with 'es' Plurals

Practice Words

Two-syllable words where 'es' is added to form plurals, creating an extra syllable.

branches teaches fishes fixes perches reaches rushes splashes tosses watches wishes
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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 at the centre of his web in a forest tree, gesturing proudly toward the intact Pot of Wisdom (match attached reference; tightly closed with its woven lid secured), with distant painted cement houses beyond the trees. 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 has a big plan. He wishes to get all the wisdom in the world and keep it in one pot. Then Anansi will be the most wise of all! The pot has a grass lid. Anansi grins at it the way a cat grins at a shut dish.

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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) stoops low to listen as old Tortoise murmurs wisdom at a red-dirt crossroads in the Ashanti forest. The full, intact Pot of Wisdom (match attached reference; tightly closed with its woven lid secured) sits beside them, glowing faintly, with hornbill feathers above and crab tracks plus a bicycle mark in the dirt. 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 inside a smooth, low-detail gradient blur covering the RIGHT 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 LEFT 40%, with only a soft natural fade into the blurred right text area. 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 sets off. At each path he stops each one and asks for the best thing they know. Hornbill teaches him to wait. Crab teaches him to move sideways to get ahead. Anansi tips each bit into the jug and claps the lid on tight. By the time he reaches the tall tree, the jug feels full and very heavy.

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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) scrambles partway up a tall silk-cotton tree trunk while sliding downward in frustration, hugging the intact, closed Pot of Wisdom (match attached reference) against his belly. Pot's Bark-Rope (match attached reference; tied around the pot's neck and looped over Anansi's front four legs) is tied around the pot's neck and looped over his front four legs, with scraped reddish bark and dry leaves around the roots. 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 inside a smooth, low-detail gradient blur covering the TOP 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 LOWER 40%, with only a soft natural fade into the blurred top text area. 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.

'I will hide the pot up in the branches,' Anansi says, 'where no one can reach it.' He ties the pot to his front with a rope and starts to climb. But the pot swings and bangs the trunk and sends him back down. He tries again. Slide. Again. Slide. The smooth trunk is no help at 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: Ntikuma (match attached reference) sits on a mossy rock at the base of the silk-cotton tree, with gathered firewood beside him and a chewed grass stem. Anansi (match attached reference) is frozen clinging to the bark above, with the intact, closed Pot of Wisdom (match attached reference) awkwardly blocking his climb against his front, secured by Pot's Bark-Rope (match attached reference; holding the pot against Anansi's front), tied around its neck. 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.

Down on a low rock sits Anansi's small son, Ntikuma. The boy watches the whole sliding mess and thinks. 'Father,' he calls up, 'why not tie the pot to the back? Then the legs can be free to climb!' It is such a simple thought that Anansi freezes on the bark.

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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: In a tight close view, Anansi (match attached reference) presses his embarrassed face against the rough tree bark as Pot's Bark-Rope (match attached reference; taut across the close view) cuts across the scene, capturing his realisation that the pot is already incomplete. 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.

A hot blush rushes up Anansi from his first leg to his last. All day he gets wisdom from the world, and now his own small son gives him the best bit for free. The pot was to hold it all. But this thought came from outside the pot, and Ntikuma did not even go looking.

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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) climbs a silk-cotton tree with the intact, closed Pot of Wisdom (match attached reference) strapped to his back, secured by Pot's Bark-Rope (match attached reference; securing the pot to Anansi's back). His legs grip the bark. Below, Ntikuma (match attached reference) watches from his rock, with a pale plastic bucket far off near the forest path. 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 inside a smooth, low-detail gradient blur covering the TOP 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 LOWER 40%, with only a soft natural fade into the blurred top text area. 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.

'If my small son has wisdom I do not,' Anansi says, 'then wisdom must be all over. With the man who fishes on the lake. With the old women who read the clouds.' He looks at the jug. He looks at the tree. Still, he can not give up. He ties the jug to his back and climbs. His legs grip well. Up and up he 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) falls mid-air above the tree roots, legs flailing behind the upside-down Pot of Wisdom (match attached reference; striking a tree root as its woven lid detaches and spins away) as Pot's Bark-Rope (match attached reference; slipping loose during the fall) slips loose. The pot's lid spins toward the ferns as startled sunbirds flash from the green canopy. 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.

He is almost at the first high branch when the rope slips. The jug tilts. Anansi grabs for it and lets go of the trunk, and for one long moment he feels himself falling. The jug falls faster. It hits a root with a crack that scares the birds from the branches, and the lid spins off into the ferns below.

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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 dazed in crushed ferns at the tree roots, surrounded by the two split pieces of the Pot of Wisdom (match attached reference; broken into two pieces with the lid detached). Gold-green threads stream from the break into spider-lilies and toward far hills, with sleeping children faintly visible in the distance. 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 inside a smooth, low-detail gradient blur covering the RIGHT 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 LEFT 40%, with only a soft natural fade into the blurred right text area. 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 wisdom bursts out of the pot and flies off on the wind. Some lands in the flowers by the stream. Some splashes into the stream. Some drifts into the ears of sleeping kids. Anansi lands in the ferns with a soft thud, not hurt, but the pot sits in two bits and the wisdom is gone.

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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) and Ntikuma (match attached reference) sit side by side in a fern bed, with the two pieces of the broken Pot of Wisdom (match attached reference; broken into two pieces with the lid detached) between them. A small yellow weaver-bird sings from one piece while Anansi looks at his empty legs hanging loose. 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 inside a smooth, low-detail gradient blur covering the TOP 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 LOWER 40%, with only a soft natural fade into the blurred top text area. 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 sits in the ferns for a long time. Ntikuma sits by him and says nothing, for that is the most wise thing to do. The forest is quiet but for the river and the birds. Then a small bird perches on the broken pot and sings three bright notes. Anansi looks at his empty legs and feels strangely light.

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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) and Ntikuma (match attached reference) sit together in the ferns; Anansi raises one leg mid-count and stares at his legs with his mouth half-open while Ntikuma sits beside him calmly. Nearby lie the two pieces of the broken Pot of Wisdom (match attached reference; broken into two pieces with the lid detached), with fern shadows patterned on the ground. 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.

'I got the hornbill's wisdom to wait,' Anansi says slowly, 'but I did not use it. I got the crab's wisdom to move sideways, but I climbed straight up past all the branches.' He counts on his legs and runs out of legs first. 'The wisdom was never in the pot,' Ntikuma says softly. 'It was in the using of it.' Anansi opens his mouth to argue, then shuts it again.

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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) laughs and tells a story in an Akan village clearing while elders, children, a weaver, and a drummer listen, with bright Western casual clothing, a carved drum, patterned cloth, painted cement walls, and small daylight wisdom motes drifting between them. 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.

From that day on, wisdom lives in the wind and the water, in old songs and new tales, in old women and in small boys who watch from rocks. When someone gets too sure they have all the answers, a breeze tosses their plans, and a smile spreads. Anansi tells the tale on himself, for a spider who can grin at his own plans is hard to beat.

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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: Inside a village home, Ntikuma (match attached reference) holds up a perfectly undone woven knot while surprised adults admire her. Enamel bowls are stacked near a wall, sneakers sit by the doorway, and Nyame’s small pleased face appears beyond the clouds. 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.

The old Sky-God looks down from the sky and is glad. Not for the fall, the Sky-God is too kind for that, but because the wisdom spread to each part of the forest, not stuck in one pot. Now and then, late in the day, a child fixes a problem that stumps every grown up, and the wise voice sounds like Ntikuma. No one holds all the wisdom, not even Anansi. And that is a very wise thing indeed.

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