A carpenter consults a fortune-teller who tells him that he will be rich if he earns a lot of money, he will be famous if he becomes well known, he will marry his true love if he finds her and she agrees to marry him, he will be happy if he can avoid being miserable, and he will live a long life if he doesn't have an early death. In this original folktale, the fortune-teller's prophecies come true in a way that he himself could have never predicted. The color illustrations, created with ink, acrylic, and crayon, set the story in the country of Cameroon.

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