From the mid-1960s onwards, she began to publish a series of volumes of Ananse stories, retold for children, which became widely known in Africa, England and America and throughout the English-speaking world. Beginning with "Ananse the Spider: Tales from an Ashanti Village" in 1966, and followed by "Tales of an Ashanti Father", she went on to publish the "Children of Ananse" in 1968, "The Pineapple Child and Other Tales from Asante" in 1969, "Why There are So Many Roads" in 1972, and "Why the Hyena Does Not Care for Fish and Other Tales from the Ashanti Gold Weights" in 1977. She also published a series of readers to help Ghanaian children learn English: "The Lost Earring", "Yao and the Python", "Abena and the Python", "Afua and the Mouse" and "Kofi and the Crow", as well as a series of novels for children and adults, including "Gift of the Mmoatia" and" Ring of Gold", and two volumes of poetry. Some of her works are used as set texts in primary and secondary schools in West Africa. Perhaps, her most important publication, however, which was the result of nearly five decades of work, was "Bu Me Bé: Proverbs of the Akan", a collection of more than 7,000 Twi proverbs that was launched in Accra in 2001.