Straw Sense

Goolam-Habib, a young boy who is new to a village surrounded by strawberry fields and who doesn’t speak, befriends an old man making a straw-filled doll, and soon the old man helps the boy find himself.

Related: Africa, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction, South Africa

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