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Tawia Goes to Sea

Weight	0.200 kg
Year Published	2018
Author	Meshack Asare
Publisher	Sub-Saharan Publishers

Tawia Goes to Sea

Name: Tawia Goes to Sea
SKU: BK1113
Price: 22.00 GHS
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Meshack Asare

Age Range: 6 – 10 years

Received a UNESCO citation as Best Picture Book from Africa

Tawia lives in a fishing village near Accra. He longs to go to sea with the men, but they tell him he is too young. Undaunted and headstrong Tawia builds his own coconut canoe and sets it out to sea.

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SKU: BK1113 Categories: 9-12 years, Action & Adventure, African Authors, Age Range, Ages 6-8 years, Author Origin, Children & Teens, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Illustrated books, Literature & Fiction Tags: Meshack Asare, Tawia Goes to Sea

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Weight	0.200 kg
Year Published	2018
Author	Meshack Asare
Publisher	Sub-Saharan Publishers

Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare is one of Africa's top children's writers and illustrators, and has won numerous awards including being the 2015 recipient of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, he is the first African to win the award. In 1982 he won The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, and in 1999 the Toyota/Children's Literature Foundation Best Picture Story Book Illustrator's award and the Unesco First Prize for Children and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance.

Meshack Asare, born 1945 in Ghana, studied Fine Arts at the College of Art in Kumasi and taught in Ghana for 12 years between 1967 and 1979. During that period, he took an extension course in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin.