This was virtually the first story in the African Folk Tales book, and so gave me the immediate impression that finding suitable stories would be a piece of cake… it wasn’t.  But this was a relatively easy story to tell, with hints of Hansel and Gretel: a brother and sister lost in the jungle, using dropped items to show the way, and using trickery to escape from an evil creature who wished to eat them.

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               I suppose, if I am honest, I did have some misgivings about the bad guy being a cannibal instead of a witch, in case I was being guilty of falling into unfortunate stereotypes, but in the end I decided to go with it unless advised otherwise, as it was the way he was described in the original story.  And sometimes you can be just too sensitive.