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Books:
A Home for Salty
Elizabeti's Doll Mama
Elizabeti Elizabeti's School
We'll Paint The Octopus Red
Memories of Sun: Stories of Africa and America
Babu's Song The Best
Worst Brother
A
Home for Salty is about an endangered marsh mouse living in the San
Francisco Bay.
Stephanie was commissioned to write this book by the Friends of San Pablo
Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
A young Tanzanian girl finds a special doll, and realizes how much she
loves the doll when she almost loses her.
Upon the arrival of her new baby brother, Elizabeti decides she needs
a doll she can care for the way her mother cares for the new baby. After
looking around her village, Elizabeti finds the perfect doll to love,
and names her Eva.
When Mama changes the new baby's diaper, Elizabeti changes Eva. When Mama
sings to the baby, Elizabeti sings to Eva. And one day when Eva turns
up lost, Elizabeti realizes just how much she loves her special doll.
Sure to become a classic story for bedtime or naptime, Elizabeti's Doll
is a universal tale of love and tenderness that will touch readers of
all ages. ( illustrated by Christy Hale)
In this sequel
to the award-winning ELIZABETI'S DOLL, the same heroine,
a Tanzanian girl, learns the difference between taking care of a real
baby and taking care of her beloved rock doll.
Elizabeti has a new baby sister, so now Elizabeti has to help take care
of her younger brother, Obedi. Elizabeti knows just what to do. She has
been taking care of her "baby," a rock doll named Eva, since Obedi was
a baby.
But taking care of a real child isn’t as easy as taking care of a
rock doll. Elizabeti tries to sweep the floor, but Obedi pulls her hair.
Elizabeti sifts rocks out of the rice, but Obedi spills it on the ground.
When Elizabeti goes to get water, Obedi wiggles so much that the heavy
water jug falls off her head. Poor Elizabeti. How will she get anything
done?
Author Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen and artist Christy Hale team up again to
tell a loving and tender story that all children -- and mothers -- can
relate to, as Elizabeti discovers the true bond she has with her little
brother. MAMA ELIZABETI, like ELIZABETI'S DOLL, will prove to be a classic
for all ages.
In this third book
of the popular Elizabeti series, a young Tanzanian girl discovers the
joy of learning on her first day at school .
It is Elizabeti’s first day of school. She is so excited that she
can hardly sit still while Mama braids her hair.
Yet when Elizabeti arrives at school, she feels shy. She wishes she had
stayed home instead.
While Elizabeti learns a new game in the schoolyard and how to count in
class, she is glad when the school day is over and she can take off her
stiff school clothes and shoes. She is so happy that she decides she doesn’t
want to go back to school again. But in the evening, as Elizabeti enjoys
playing her new game with Mama, she discovers that she can use her new
math skills to count—her new kittens!
We'll Paint the Octopus Red
What starts as a regular
new-baby story takes an unexpected twist. The young redheaded narrator
is at first displeased with the idea of a new sibling but then has lots
of ideas about what they might do together. She will take the baby to
her grandfather's farm and feed the calves. Her father says they can do
that when the baby is older. She will teach the baby to paint. Her father
says they can do that when the baby is older. She will take the baby to
Africa on a photo safari. Her father says fine, but only if he can go,
too. After the girl and her father are finished talking, she says, "We'd
thought of at least a million things my new brother or sister could do
with me." Then, Father comes home with the news that baby Isaac has been
born with Down syndrome. Her father is upset, but as the girl asks her
questions all over again, they both see that although it may take a little
longer and require more patience, they can't find one of those million
things that Isaac won't be able to do with their help.
Memories of Sun: Stories of Africa and America
Quoted from the book
flap: "What is it like to grow up in different parts of Africa today?
And what's it like to be a child of two cultures -- an American living
in Africa or an African living in America? In South Africa visit the Bushman
Farm, where a lonely girl meets a group of Bushmen who are making their
living as a tourist attraction -- and finds friendship and family as she's
never known them before. In Tanzania join an American family on an unforgettable
safari whose highlights include a broken car, a camp of armed men, heat,
tsetse flies, and laughter. In Los Angeles be surprised by what happens
when a teenage veteran from war in Sierra Leone comes into conflict with
a local gang leader. Jane Kurtz, who is herself a child of two cultures
-- Ethiopia and America -- has gathered a remarkable collection of voices.
These twelve stories and three poems sing of Africa, of America, and of
people changing, growing, crying, and laughing under the same sun.
Babu's
Song
Bernardi,
a Tanzanian boy, lives with his grandfather, Babu. Bernardi wants to go
to school and play soccer, but they don't have enough money. Then, Babu
gives Bernardi a music box.
The
Best Worst Brother
In this sequel
to the popular storybook We'll Paint the Octopus Red, Isaac is
almost three years old and Emma is in elementary school. Emma misses the
adoring baby brother Isaac used to be. Now that he's older, he's a pain.
It is an endearing and realistic look at how a relationship evolves between
a typically developing older sister and her younger brother with a developmental
disability.