For You Are a Kenyan Child
by:
Kelly Cunnane (author)
Imagine you live in a small Kenyan village, where the sun rises over tall trees filled with doves. You wake to the sound of a rooster's crow, instead of an alarm clock and the school bus. Your afternoon snack is a tasty bug plucked from the sky, instead of an apple. And rather than kicking a...
show more
Imagine you live in a small Kenyan village, where the sun rises over tall trees filled with doves. You wake to the sound of a rooster's crow, instead of an alarm clock and the school bus. Your afternoon snack is a tasty bug plucked from the sky, instead of an apple. And rather than kicking a soccer ball across a field, you kick a homemade ball of rags down a dusty road. But despite this, things aren't that different for a Kenyan child than they would be for an American kid, are they? With so much going on around you, it's just as easy to forget what your mama asked you to do!
show less
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780689861949 (068986194X)
Publish date: January 1st 2006
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
Text: 2 StarsIllustrations: 5 StarsExperience a day as a Kenyan child in a village, but don't forget your chores!I appreciate what this book was trying to do, but I don't think it ever worked. The story is told in second-person ("you"), so that the reader/child identifies and experiences the story a...
Log in with Facebook 
