This is one of the many versions of the story. Yaa, an old woman in the village, talks to the sky god, whose name is Onyakopon. Anytime the people in the village need something, such as rain for thier crops, she delivers the message to him and he gives the village what they ask for. The sky god gets fed up with Yaa because she is constantly hurting him, although not intenionally. He goes back to Heaven to get away from her. The village helps Yaa bulild a tower out of mortars to reach Heaven, but it isn't high enough. The villagers keep pulling the bottom mortar and sending it up, not realizing that it doesn't change anything. In the end, Yaa is still waiting on another mortar, but no one in the village has returned with it. ( )

This is a great story with colorful illustrations. I really liked the moral lesson in it.