Illustrated by Jude Daly
Schwartz & Wade Books, 2011
HC $17.99
32 pages
Rating: 4.5
Endpapers: Brown
earth with a few floating musical notes
Title Page: her
family, walking across the page. Full
color.
Illustrations:
cover most of page, in acrylics.
Sparse yet detailed. Give a real
feel for the setting.
Setting:
Contemporary northwestern Kenya, Kalenjin tribe
OSS: Young
Chirchir wants to help her family with the chores, but is a little too young to
be able to actually help.
We meet Chirchir’s family as they are working. Mama, who is drawing water from the well;
Kogo, her grandmother, tending fire to cook chai; Ji-Bet, her sister, spreading
a fresh layer of cow dung and ashes on the floor of the kitchen hut; Baba, her
father, digging potatoes in the hill garden.
She sings everywhere she goes.
And so she sings to her baby brother, which keeps him entertained , as
her voice travels to the rest of her family and keeps them happy, too.
Great language…simile and metaphor, with info in the back
about this culture and a glossary and pronounciationguide for the Swahili words
used.
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