Region: Tanzania

Materials from Tanzania

Lala Salama

By Book Importer | Published: December 21, 2011

An African lullaby in Swahili and English in which a little boy says good night to all the animals and ends with his mother.

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Lala Salama

By Book Importer | Published: November 21, 2011

A mother relates the events of a peaceful day along the banks of Lake Tanganyika to her baby, wrapped up and ready for sleep.

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Only The Mountains Do Not Move

By Book Importer | Published: November 7, 2011

Nobody can say he is settled anywhere forever; it is only the mountains which do not move from their places. So goes a Maasai proverb, and so goes the lives of the Maasai in Africa. For hundreds of years they have moved with their herds of cattle and goats across thousands of miles in Kenya [...]

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Handa’s Hen

By Book Importer | Published: August 24, 2011

Every morning, Handa, a young girl from the Luo tribe, feeds breakfast to Mondi, her grandma’s black hen. This morning, however, Mondi is nowhere to be seen. So Handa and her friend Akeyo set off on a hunt, coming upon two fluttery butterflies, three stripy mice, four little lizards, five beautiful sunbirds, and many more [...]

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The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

In this retelling of a Masai tale, a mongoose helps an ostrich get her chicks back from the lonely lioness who has stolen them.

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Sungura and Leopard: A Swahili Trickster Tale

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

A small but clever hare and a fierce leopard agree to share a house, but as the hare’s family grows, he realizes that he must find a way to get rid of his bad-tempered neighbor.

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What the Animals Were Waiting For

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

Cowbells tinkle. And over there, a family of elephants munches on dry grass, flaps huge ears like slow fans, and waits. It is a time of waiting. The gazelles, the wildebeest and the zebras are all waiting. The lions, too, and the crocodiles are waiting. Little Tepi watches the animals and wonders what is coming. [...]

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Shadow Dance

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

When the crocodile she has rescued tricks her, little Salome must use some cunning of her own to escape becoming his next meal.

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Song Bird

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

An adaptation of a folktale from southern Africa, in which a magical bird helps a kind young girl get back her people’s stolen cattle from Makucha the monster.

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Ananse’s Feast: An Ashanti Tale

By Book Importer | Published: June 14, 2011

Unwilling to share his feast, Ananse the spider tricks Akye the turtle so that he can eat all the food himself, but Akye finds a way to get even.

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