Jamila’s Clever Plan

Name: Jamila’s Clever Plan
SKU: BK6872
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Age Range: 3 – 8 years

Jamila lives with her grandmother in Bebeji, Kano state. Her grandmother, Kaka, is a dressmaker. One day, Kaka decides to pack away her sewing machine because she can no longer see.

Sad and scared, Jamila stops school to care for her blind grandmother. Together, they beg for alms in the marketplace until they come across a new eye clinic.

Jamila hatches a clever plan to help Kaka get her sight back.

SKU: BK6872 Categories: African Authors, Age Range, Ages 3-5 years, Ages 6-8 years, Animals, Author Origin, Birds, Children & Teens, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Family, Growing Up & Facts of Life, Illustrated books, Literature & Fiction, Nigeria Tags: Anyibo and the Mother Hen, Do As You Are Told Baji!, Iyaji the Housegirl, Jamila’s Clever Plan, KR Onimole, Lola Shoneyin

Additional information

Weight	0.200 kg
ISBN	9789787911709
Pages	29
Year Published	2022
Format	Paperback

Lola Shoneyin's work includes three books of poems: So All the Time I Was Sitting on an Egg (1997), Song of a Riverbird (2002) For the Love of Flight (2010) and two children's books: Mayowa and the Masquerades (2010) and Iyaji, the Housegirl (2014)

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 and went on to win the PEN Oakland 2011 Josephine Miles Literary Award and the 2011 ANA/Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose Prize. Her children's book, Mayowa and the Masquerades won the 2011 Atiku Abubakar Prize for Children's literature.

Shoneyin is the director of Ake Arts & Book Festival which takes place every November in Abeokuta, Nigeria. She lives in Nigeria.

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