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Tales from African Dreamtime
Age Range: 8 – 12 years
Welcome, dear Brothers and Sisters, to the magical world of African Dreamtime.
Discover how Man lost his tail, how Tortoise got his shell, and meet an array of colourful characters, from Little Bush Pig to the Wicked Leopardess.
From the wild plains of Sudan to the small village in Cameroon, this enchanting collection contains folk tales from many African traditions. Gather in, draw closer, and open your heart to the wisdom of these ancient stories.
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Once Upon A Time
Age Range: 4 – 7 years
Sarie doesn’t like school. Every time she has to take out her reading book, she feels sick, her voice disappears and the other children tease her. But one person understands how she feels — Ou Missus, an old lady living across the veld. She tells wonderful stories, and when Sarie finds a dusty old copy of Cinderella, they start to read it together…
Niki Daly’s endearing story and illustrations, steeped in the atmosphere of the South African veld, will inspire every child who shares Sarie’s reluctance to read.
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Snakes and Ladders
In Snakes and Ladders, bestselling authors and executive coaches, Albert and Comfort Ocran, highlight some of the most notable choices and experiences that bring us down on the game board of life and those that take us up. The retrogressive experiences are the snakes while the progressive ones are the ladders. The title is inspired by the popular ancient Indian board game called Snakes and Ladders.
The authors deploy a variety of sporting, business, scriptural and socio-political illustrations to bring home some priceless life lessons. Within these pages, you will discover life’s most common snake as well the authors’ nomination for the longest snake of all. Readers will also discover 21 simple but compelling secrets of all great people.
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Burning Grass (African Writers Series)
This is an enthralling tale of Northern Nigeria where, when the grass is burnt on the plains, the Fulani cattlemen move southwards towards the banks of the Niger. Mai Sunsaye, the hero of the story, is afflicted with the sokugo, wandering sickness, and his experiences and those of his herdsmen make a fascinating tale.
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Second-Class Citizen (African Writers Series)
The classic tale of a Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination only to encounter the hardships of immigration. Available again.
In the late 1960’s, Adah, a spirited and resourceful woman, manages to move her family to London to live with her Nigerian student husband. She soon discovers that life for a young Nigerian woman living in London is grim. Rejected by British society and thwarted by her husband, who expects her to be subservient to him, she is forced to face up to life as a second-class citizen.
“Second Class Citizen pales a lot of academic feminist writing into insignificance.” –The Guardian
“Emecheta’s prose has a shimmer of originality, of English being reinvented….Issues of survival lie inherent in her material and give her tales weight.” –John Updike
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The Angel Who Wore Shoes (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.
One night Gumi and his wife were visited by an angel. He will save their lives if they give him all their money.
Gumi’s friend Sumo does not believe the story. What would an angel do with money? And do angels wear shoes?
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Valley of the Skulls (Junior African Writers Series Level 3)
Level 3 is for readers who have been studying for five to six years. The content and language have been carefully controlled to increase fluency in reading.
Adama loves his grandfather’s wonderful stories. He always looks forward to the old man’s visits to the family in Accra. But one night his grandfather tells a strange tale of death and destruction.
It leads Adama into a nightmare world of blood and bones. Will he ever escape?
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Strange Gang Kid (Junior African Writers Series Level 4)
Level 4 offers more advanced reading for teenagers and young adults. The content and language are controlled to encourage greater fluency in reading.
Vikani’s village is attacked and burnt down. He escapes to look for his uncle in Soweto, outside Johannesburg. Vikani is forced to join a street gang. Then he is arrested by the police. He gets to Soweto only to be arrested again — for trying to kill an old man who is helping him.
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Paulo’s Strange Adventure (Junior African Writers Series Level 4)
Level 4 offers more advanced reading for teenagers and young adults. The content and language are controlled to encourage greater fluency in reading.
When Paulo falls off a ladder, he lands on the back of a moving lorry. He doesn’t know it, but this is the start of an exciting and frightening adventure.
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The Ivory Poachers (Junior African Writers Series Level 5)
Level 5 is the upper level in the series. It is aimed at more mature young adults and advanced readers who are looking for material which is challenging but still controlled for language and content.
Japala loves animals and wants to become a wildlife game scout. Her family and friends are horrified. Life becomes very exciting for her. She does become a game scout, she falls in love and then she is captured by elephant poachers. Only two of these events end happily.
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Tail of the Blue Bird
Shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth PrizeA Die Well Top 10 BookSonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Here, the men and women speak the language of the forest, drink aphrodisiacs with their palm wine and walk alongside the spirits of their ancestors. The discovery of sinister remains; possibly human, definitely ‘evil’; in a vanished man’s hut brings the modern world into the village in the form of Kayo; a young forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most inexplicable of mysteries.But as events in the village become more and more incomprehensible, Kayo and his sidekick, Constable Garba, find that Western logic and political bureaucracy are no longer equal to the task in hand. Strange boys wandering in the forest, ghostly music in the night and a flock of birds that come from far away to fill the desolate hut with discarded feathers take the newcomers into a world where, in the unknown, they discover a higher truth that leaves scientific explanations far behind.
Tail of the Bluebird is a story of the mystical heart of Africa, of the clash and clasp between old and new worlds. Lyrically beautiful, at once uncanny and heart-warmingly human, this is a story that tells us that at the heart of modern man there remains the capacity to know the unknowable.
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The Makings of You
Nii Ayikwei Parkes’ début collection encompasses the story of a triangular trade in reverse – a family history that goes from the Caribbean back to Sierra Leone, and in his own life from London to Ghana, and back again.
His gift as a poet is for the most rewarding kind of story-telling, including those stories told with wit and an engaging ambivalence about himself. His narratives move unerringly to a perfect punch-line, but in the collection as a whole there is a refreshing lack of complacency in his willingness to move out of his comfort zone and explore areas of imaginative fantasy, as in his “Ballast” series, a tour de force of defamiliarisation, where he imagines how the slave trade would have gone had its mode of transport been the hot air balloon, rather than the slave ship.
There is much humour, but it comes from a family tradition of knowing that “our jokes weren’t really funny, they were just sad/ stories we learned to laugh at”. Like all poets with a largeness of heart, with no embarrassment about embracing the deepest feelings, Parkes has an especial sensitivity to the promise and acute sensitivities of childhood, both his own and others.There is much humour, but it comes from a family tradition of knowing that “our jokes weren’t really funny, they were just sad/ stories we learned to laugh at”. Like all poets with a largeness of heart, with no embarrassment about embracing the deepest feelings, Parkes has an especial sensitivity to the promise and acute sensitivities of childhood, both his own and others.
Nii Ayikwei Parkes’s poem Barter from The Makings of You (Peepal Tree) is featured on tube train posters throughout London as part of the fantastic ‘Poems on the Underground’, celebrating 150 Years of the London Underground.
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