We're going to Africa this week! Here's a list of book suggestions I made for them regarding this continent:
The Hatseller and the Monkeys, Baba Diakite' (West African)
If you like his work, also: The Hunterman and the Crocodile
Too Much Talk, Angela Medearis
This for That, Verna Aardema (Tonga of Zambezi)
...also by her: How the Ostrich got a Long Neck (Akamba of Kenya) and
Tales for the Third Ear (Equatorial Africa) and
Jackal's Flying Lesson (Khoikhoi) AND
Anansi Finds a Fool (Ashanti) - Anansi Does the Impossible
The Orphan Boy, Tololwa Mollel (Maasai), also
The Flying Tortoise: An Igbo Tale and
Anansi's Feast (Ashanti)
Stories from West Africa, Robert Hull
The Lion's Whiskers, Nancy Day (Ethiopian)
The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth, Margaret Musgrove (Ashanti of Ghana)
Zzzng! Zzzng! Zzzng! A Yoruba Tale, Phyllis Gershator
Ashanti to Zulu, Margaret Musgrove (traditions and customs of 26 African tribes on one or two pages each)
Talking Drums of Africa, Christie Price (Yoruba and Ashanti)
Kids Discover: African Kingdoms
Shaka, King of the Zulus, Diane Stanley
Count Your Way Through South Africa, Jim Haskins
South Africa, Ann Heinrichs
Mandela, Floyd Cooper
Nelson Mandela, Pamela Dell
Tales from Africa, Mary Medicott
Fire on the Mountain, Jane Kurtz (Ethiopia)
The Name of the Tree, Celia Lottridge (Bantu)
Kenya, Jim Bartell
Count Your Way Through Kenya, Jim Haskins
Little Big Ears, Cynthia Moss (about an orphan baby elephant growing up in a wildlife preserve)
How it was with Dooms, Xan Hopcraft (living with a cheetah in Kenya....)
Looking for Miza, Juliana Hatkoff (mountain gorilla family rescues a baby gorilla)
(Watched Born Free lately?)
Count Your Way Through Zimbabwe, Jim Haskins
Tales Told Near a Crocodile, Humphrey Harman (Nyanza - Lake Victoria)
Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali, Kephra Burns
Faces: Morocco (children's magazine like Calliope or Cobblestone)
The Children of Morocco, Jules Hermes
The Bachelor and the Bean, Shelley Fowles (Jewish folktale from Morocco)
Regena
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