Illustrated by the author
2001, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
28 pages
HC $16.00
I’ve read many of Niki Daly’s books, but it wasn’t until
this one that I realized he was a HE. He
lives in South Africa, where this story is set.
Endpapers: Yellow
with brush-stroked chikens running forward and backward.
Title Page:
Two-page spread of a city street, with Jamela and her mom walking
happily. Nice.
SETTING:
Contemporary South Africa in the days approaching Christmas.
1st sentence/s: “Gogo and Mama were maiking plans for
Christmas.”
OSS: Jamela raises
a chicken that is to be the main part of Christmas dinner, but when it becomes
a pet she goes to dire straits to make sure that “Christmas” does NOT become
Christmas dinner.
Includes a GLOSSARY.
Illustrations:
Well….perhaps ink and colored pencil?
They’re lovely, showing South African life , I’m particularly fond of
the fabrics of rich African cloths.
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