Muhamad, a young Tuareg boy, sets out to prove himself by caring for his father’s goats alone overnight in the desert and finds his night enlived by a pregnant goat about to give birth, in a poetic look at the lives of the Tuareg people of the Sahara.
Related: Africa, Niger, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction
- ISBN: 9780399227264
- Author: Kessler, Cristina
- Illustrator: Schoenherr, Ian
- Published: 1995
- Themes: Courage, Goats, nomads, responsibility
- Descriptors: Africa, Niger, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction
- No. of pages: 32