Author : Julie Stiegemeyer
Publisher : Zonderkidz
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,24 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 : Wilma Stockenstrom
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 17,41 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 : Catherine House
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Bks
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 10,55 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 : Louie Stowell
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 49,68 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 : Ken Bugul
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813927374
Despite its unflinching look at our darkest impulses, and at the stark facts of being a colonized African, the book is ultimately inspirational, for it exposes us to a remarkable sensibility and a hard-won understanding of one's place in the world.CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
Author : Nelda LaTeef
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,44 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 : G.E. Wickens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2008-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402064314
This is the only comprehensive account of all eight species in the genus Adansonia. It describes the historical background from the late Roman period to the present. It covers the extraordinary variety of economic uses of baobabs. There are also appendices on vernacular names, gazetteer, economics, nutrition and forest mensuration. This book fills a gap in the botanical literature. It deals with a genus that has fascinated and intrigued scientists and lay persons for centuries.
Author : Cheryl Foggo
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781897187913
When Maiko has to leave his village in Africa to live with his aunt and uncle in Canada, he misses the giant baobab tree in the middle of his village but makes friends with a small spruce tree in his aunt and uncle's yard.
Author : Mi-Hwa Joo
Publisher : Global Kids Storybooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,47 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 : Paula Leyden
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781406327939
One morning 12-year-old Fred wakes up with an unaccountable sense of foreboding, which his friend Bul-Boo, one of the twins from next door, insists is just in his imagination. However, the feeling persists - and grows stronger when Fred's terrifying great-granny, Nokokulu, asks him to accompany her on a trip to an ancient burial site known as the Place of Death. Then Bul-Boo overhears her parents talking about patients going missing from her mother's AIDS clinic, and when one of the patients turns out to be Fred's Aunt Kiki, the children suddenly view Nokokulu's trip in a different light. Could the two events somehow be linked?
