Daba's Travels from Ouadda to Bangui
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394820507 (0394820509)
Publish date: 1970
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pages no: 170
Edition language: English
Like apparently most of the people who read this book, I read it for my world books challenge and wasn’t particularly impressed. It seems to be aimed at middle-grade readers (ages 9-12), and recounts the childhood experiences of a boy named Daba as he leaves his village in the Central African Republ...
Central African Republic.This middle readers novel about a boy in the Central African Republic is a somewhat diluted bildungsroman, most interesting for its descriptions of the boy's daily life. While the village scenes are illuminating, the fluid and dynamic illustrations are its most charming and ...