by Jane Kurtz illustrated by Rachel Isadora Publisher and date: Greenwillow Books, 2005 Genres: fiction with folktales mixed in Age/Grade:ages 5 and up Synopsis: (from the author’s website) Kofi can’t sleep in his new home in the United States, so his older sister Abena soothes his fears about life in a different country by telling [...]
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by Jane Kurtz and Christopher Kurtz Illustrated by Lee Christiansen Publisher and date: Harper Collins, March 2002 Genres: fiction Age/Grade:ages 4-8 Synopsis: (from www.bn.com) Waiting is hard. And if you are a small vervet monkey with a big thirst, it’s even harder. But wait you must, because snap! go Crocodile’s jaws; slip, slap go Lion’s [...]
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