Author : Mi-Hwa Joo
Publisher : Global Kids Storybooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781925247558
The nav̐e wooden puppet comes to life through illustrations that use a detailed woodblock and etching technique.
Author : Joy Cowley
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781925248340
Author : Julie Stiegemeyer
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2012-11-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0310739284
The baobab tree story, which I wrote (the church version) is actually based upon a true story, told by Limakatso Nare, a Lutheran pastor who is currently serving a congregation in Louisiana. When he was growing up in his native Africa, he gathered for Sunday school under the baobab tree. Here he learned the Biblical stories of Noah and the ark, Jonah and the big fish, and the parables of Jesus. His Sunday school experiences inspired my story, Under the Baobab Tree.
Author : Catherine House
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Bks
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781847801166
Set in Africa during the Christmas season, this is the story of a village preparing for a celebration - the birth of a child. The story is told in verse inspired by the traditional carol The Twelve Days of Christmas, but in this version by the author Catherine House the gifts are: 1 stork in a baobab tree, 2 thatched huts, 3 woven baskets, 4 market traders, 5 bright khangas, 6 women pounding, 7 children playing, 8 wooden carvings, 9 grazing goats, 10 drummers drumming, 11 dancers dancing and 12 storytellers. This is a Christmas steeped in the atmosphere of African village life, including descriptions of the objects and activities mentioned in the text.
Author : Wilma Stockenstrom
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935744933
Learning to survive in the harsh interior of Southern Africa, a former slave seeks shelter in the hollow of a baobab tree. For the first time since she was a young girl her time is her own, her body is her own, her thoughts are her own. In solitude, she is finally able to reflect on her own existence and its meaning, bringing her a semblance of inner peace. Scenes from her former life shuttle through her mind: how owner after owner assaulted her, and how each of her babies were taken away as soon as they were weaned, their futures left to her imagination. We are the sole witnesses to her history: her capture as a child, her tortured days in a harbor city on the eastern coast as a servant, her journey with her last owner and protector, her flight, and the kaleidoscopic world of her baobab tree. Wilma Stockenström's profound work of narrative fiction, translated by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, is a rare, haunting exploration of enslavement and freedom.
Author : Nelda LaTeef
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category :
ISBN : 9789988860387
A rabbit, lost in the desert and saved by a baobab tree, outwits a stronger, envious neighbor.
Author : Bhajju Shyam
Publisher : Tara Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 8186211926
A visual ode to trees rendered by tribal artists from India, in a handsome handcrafted edition.
Author : Dionne N. Champion
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781436378413
Out of the sketchbook of a nine-year-old foster child, a Griot appears to teach a class about their family histories, from Africa, to slavery in America, to crime-ridden cities, urging the children to acknowledge the pain and the triumphs of the past so they can choose to make a better future.
Author : Louie Stowell
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1474905528
When the gods create a talking tree, they soon regret it because it won’t be quiet. So they turn it upside down and bury its head in the dirt. The classic African folktale, specially retold as part of the Usborne Reading Programme for children just starting to read alone. This ebook includes audio and reading-related puzzles. "Crack reading and make confident and enthusiastic readers with this fantastic reading programme." - Julia Eccleshare
Author : Alison Jolly
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1783603208
'An enchanting book...poignant and passionate.' Geographical 'A captivating and absorbing account.' Sir David Attenborough Madagascar is one of the world’s natural jewels, with over ninety per cent of its wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. Few people knew it better than the pioneering primatologist and conservationist, Alison Jolly. Thank You, Madagascar is her eyewitness account of the extraordinary biodiversity of the island, and the environment of its people. At the book’s heart is a conflict between three different views of nature. Is the extraordinary forest treasure-house of Madagascar a heritage for the entire world? Is it a legacy of the forest dwellers’ ancestors, bequeathed to serve the needs of their living descendants? Or is it an economic resource to be pillaged for short-term gain and to be preserved only to deliver benefits for those with political power? Exploring and questioning these different views, this is a beautifully written diary and a tribute to Madagascar.
