Masai and I

A little girl learns about the Masai tribe at school and daydreams about what her life would have been like if she had been born into the tall, proud East African tribe. Comparing her life and theirs, she celebrates both the differences and the similarities and she learns that she has her own spiritual and even physical kinship with them.

'The text and pictures achieve a perfect harmony ... The comparisons are always positive ... A joy of a book' Junior Education.

About the author

Virginia Kroll

Summary

A little girl learns about the Masai tribe at school and daydreams about what her life would have been like if she had been born into the tall, proud East African tribe. Comparing her life and theirs, she celebrates both the differences and the similarities and she learns that she has her own spiritual and even physical kinship with them.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Kroll, Nancy Carpenter, Kroll Virginia
• Assisted by: Nancy Carpenter (Illustration), Carpenter Nancy (Illustration)
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Spiral bound
• Publication date: 01.12.1994
• Subject: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Children's and young people's books > Picture books
• EAN: 9780140548334
• ISBN: 978-0-14-054833-4
• Pages: 32
• Age Recommendation: ages 3 to 5
• Dimensions (packing): 20 x 24.2 x 0.4 cm
• Weight (packing): 140 g
• Subjects: Animals, South Africa, chinese new year, Where the wild things are, Children’s picture books, Interest age: from c 3 years, Picture books, Oliver Jeffers, children books, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, michael rosen, were going on a bear hunt, space books for children, the day the crayons quit, oi frog, books by julia donaldson, tiger who came for tea, the tiger who came to tea, the leopard, giraffes can't dance, we're going on a bear hunt, tree house, owl babies, South African, Flat Stanley, book our house, varjak paw, handas surprise, dara o'briain, beyond the sky, pancake day, shackletons journey, mr wolfs pancakes, the runaway pancake