Age: Africa

Materials from Africa

The Black Dot

By Book Importer | Published: June 22, 2011

Children wake up one morning and find a black dot on their playground. When it isn’t easily removed, each has a different way of coping with it. There are no currently English translations of this Arabic text available. See the review at WOW Review, Volume 3, Issue 4

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The Mangrove Tree

By Book Importer | Published: June 15, 2011

For a long time, the people of Hargigo, a village in the tiny African country of Eritrea, were living without enough food for themselves and their animals. The families were hungry, and their goats and sheep were hungry too. Then along came a scientist, Dr. Gordon Sato, who helped change their lives for the better. [...]

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The House With No Door: African Riddle-Poems

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

A collection of original poems created from riddles of various African tribes.

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Kassim’s Shoes

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

Kassim succumbs to pressure to abandon his old shoes but has trouble discarding them.

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Snook Alone

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

Through the power of faith, a monk named Abba Jacob and his loyal rat terrier, Snook, are reunited after being separated by a ferocious storm.

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Emeka’s Gift

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

This is a concept book to teach and delight. As a young African boy travels to visit his grandmother, he passes through the village market, where he sees lots of things Granny would like — four brooms, five hats, six necklaces, seven musical instruments, and so on. Stunning photographs taken in Emeka’s southern Nigerian village [...]

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This Is the Tree

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

A lyrical description of the ancient baobab tree and how it provides shelter and nourishment to wildlife of the African plain.

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The Leopard’s Drum: An Asante Tale from West Africa

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

Because Osebo the leopard won’t share his magnificent drum with anyone, Nyame the Sky-God offers a reward to whichever animal presents the drum to him.

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Api and the Boy Stranger

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

In this Ivory Coast legend, Api and her family are repaid for their kindness to a stranger with a mysterious warning to leave their village and go to the other side of the river Amman.

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Chinye: A West African Folk Tale

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

Poor Chinye! Back and forth through the dark forest she goes, fetching and carrying for her cruel stepmother and lazy stepsister. Terror lurks behind every tree, and ghostly figures cross her path–but strange powers are watching over her, and waiting somewhere in the moonlight is a hut piled high with magic gourds.

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