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The Price of Jealousy – Version One: A Nigerian Folktale (African Folktale Series)
Age Range: 7 – 12 years
In this beautifully illustrated, collectable library of easy-to-read traditional folktale with their moral lessons, test questions, and activities for the young ones, classic African stories are brought magically to reality. The stories in the African Folktale Series (AFS) are filled with moral lessons that have been handed down from many generations to the present in many African countries from Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroons, Liberia, the Gambia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania to Zimbabwe. The traditional African elders who inhabited an ancient continent brimming with wisdom successfully utilized these folktales to socialize their youngsters to the moral requirements of their society to insure order, security and growth.
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Bookset: Courtesy & Manners Guidebooks for Boys and Girls (5 books)
Age Range: 7 years and above
Most of us were trained with Courtesy for Boys & Girls as a guidebook. Fundamental rules of courtesy for young people, rules on behaviour; much more needed today! Now, you can have four other books in this series as a bookset.
These books are adapted from up-to-date fundamental rules of courtesy as they apply to young people of today and list for the guidance of parents and teachers rules on a gracious refinement of behaviour. They teach young readers how to be courteous in their everyday lives and how effective it can be, how to be polite and have good manners, and how to get along with others.
A great set of books to use to engage young people on matters of manners.
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Karim’s Story
Age Range: 8 – 10 years
Karim teaches his friends how to be courteous and have good habits.
₵26.00Karim’s Story
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Yennenga: The Dagomba Princess (Paperback)
Age Range: 7 – 12 years
Yennenga was very atheletic and she learnt to shoot arrows, and throw spears. She also learnt the art of horse riding. Her father gave her a special stallion called Ouedrago. At age fourteen she was a very skillful horse rider and an adept javelin thrower. Her father therefore took her to battles. She was a very good warrior! Her father became very proud of her and, in fact, made her a battalion commander. At fourteen years of age, Yennenga started helping her father in battles. Because of her skill in battle, her father refused to give her away in marriage. Yennenga loved fighting for her father in war but she also yearned to be a married woman and have children of her own. However, her father refused to give her away to any of the many suitors who sought her hand in marriage.
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Yennenga: The Dagomba Princess (Hardcover)
Age Range: 7 – 12 years
Yennenga was very atheletic and she learnt to shoot arrows, and throw spears. She also learnt the art of horse riding. Her father gave her a special stallion called Ouedrago. At age fourteen she was a very skillful horse rider and an adept javelin thrower. Her father therefore took her to battles. She was a very good warrior! Her father became very proud of her and, in fact, made her a battalion commander. At fourteen years of age, Yennenga started helping her father in battles. Because of her skill in battle, her father refused to give her away in marriage. Yennenga loved fighting for her father in war but she also yearned to be a married woman and have children of her own. However, her father refused to give her away to any of the many suitors who sought her hand in marriage.
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My Blue Book
Age Range: 2 – 5 years
Celebrating the colour blue in Africa.
“I like blue. The sky is blue. The soap is blue…Bye–bye blue.”
₵36.00My Blue Book
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Crocodile Bread (Hardcover)
Age Range: 4 – 8 years
Agnes Amoah is a proud baker in Ghana. She has been making crocodile bread ever since she was a little girl. Francisca, her granddaughter, tells the story.
A great book to introduce your children to breadmaking and baking!
₵63.00Crocodile Bread (Hardcover)
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Afram ABC Colouring Book
Kids can practice with confidence using this colouring book which has thick raised outlines to guide small hands to colour between them.
It also introduces alphabets to numbers in a fun way! The Alphabets are aligned to words children are familiar with, like ‘A’ for Africa, ‘C’ for Cocoa, ‘Q’ for Queenmother, ‘X’ for Xylophone and ‘Y’ for Yams!
This makes kid’s first attempt at colouring to be more satisfying and fun!
₵25.00Afram ABC Colouring Book
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The Moonlight Boy (SDG Changemakers Series)
Age Range: 4 – 7 yearsWhen the school principal observes that too many children are going hungry in his school, he asks Miss Yahaya, a teacher of agriculture and farmer, to oversee a school farm project alongside three resourceful school children, Ayiwa, Roro and Rafiq. The farm project is a joint-enterprise involving teachers, pupils and parents – the key stakeholders in a child’s education.
This is a fun and endearing story that promotes a practical approach to the study of agriculture and the establishment of school farms where nutritious foods can be grown to help reduce hunger in schoolchildren. The story additionally highlights the school farm as an opportunity for creating jobs and income generation for members of the community in which the schools are located.
With great illustrations and a quiz at the end of book.
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The Canoe’s Story (Hardcover)
Age Range: 6 – 12 years
“But I did not have time yet to stare and wonder. The men wrestled me out of the machine and pushed and towed me across the sand to the shade of coconut palms. The moment I touched the ground, I heard a chorus of voices saying, ‘Akwaaba. Welcome to the coast!’ It was from the group of canoes and I was rather surprised that they spoke my language. But needed not be surprised. I had forgotten that they all came from the same forest in the hitherland where I too had come from.”
Written by Ghanaian author Meshack Asare, The Canoe’s Story is a children’s book about a tree’s journey from the forest to becoming a canoe sailing the ocean. Told from the tree’s perspective, this richly illustrated story, portrays the strong ties between man and nature.
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Bookset: Penguin Readers – 51 books (Starter Level to Level 7)
Age Range: 12 – 17 years
Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.
This set of 51 titles covers Starter Level to Lever 7, spanning Pre-A1 to B2 in the CEFR framework, with story word counts ranging from 500 to 22,600. The stories are well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.
₵2,050.00₵2,142.00Bookset: Penguin Readers – 51 books (Starter Level to Level 7)
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Red Hot Pepper
Age Range: 5 – 9 years
“Koliko sakora!” some of her friends teased her as she opened her food bowl. Dzifa had eaten fried potatoes with hot pepper for lunch for the past four days. Not that she did not like the food. She did but there was no fish to eat the meal with. She had no other option, but to eat the food, just as it was.
Soon, break was over and lessons resumed.
“What is that in your dress?” Miss Lucy enquired.
“Please teacher, it is red hot pepper” Dzifa replied.
The whole class burst into laughter.
Dzifa resolved that after such an embarrassment before the whole class, she was not going to help Miss Lucy with clean the classroom anymore.
Read further to see what happened later and the surprise that lay in store for Dzifa.
₵25.00Red Hot Pepper
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Happy the Street Child (Junior African Writers Series Level 2)
Level 2 is suited to learners who have been studying English for 4-5 years. Short sentences and a large number of illustrations combine to make these books both enjoyable and easy to read, either individually or in class. Learners have a wide variety of stories to choose from.
Happy has lived on the streets of Dar es Salaam ever since her parents died. One day she meets an old friend. Will Happy have a chance to change her life and live up to her name at last?
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The Midnight Caller (Junior African Writers Series Level 2)
Level 2 is suited to learners who have been studying English for 4-5 years. Short sentences and a large number of illustrations combine to make these books both enjoyable and easy to read, either individually or in class. Learners have a wide variety of stories to choose from.
Someone is watching John’s house. John has seen him — a strange and frightening man. Then one dark night the man comes calling. What does he want? John is determined to find out.
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My Yellow Book
Age Range: 2 – 5 years
Celebrating the colour yellow in Africa.
“I like green. The bananas are yellow. The beads are yellow…Bye-bye yellow.”
₵36.00My Yellow Book
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