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10 best books like Mama Panya's Pancakes: A Village Tale from Kenya (Mary Chamberlin): How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World, Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa, Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace, Dim Sum for Everyone!, Uncle Jed's Barbershop, Erandi's Braids, Beatrice's Goat, Elizabeti's Doll, We All Went on Safari

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
AuthorMarjorie Priceman
ISBN0679880836
Illus. in full color. An apple pie is easy to make...if the market is open. But if the market is closed, the world becomes your grocery store. This deliciously silly recipe for apple pie takes readers around the globe to gather ingredients. First hop a steamboat to Italy for the finest semolina wheat....
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
AuthorJeanette Winter
ISBN0152065458
As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. But years later when she returns home, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees will be destroyed. So Wangari decides to do something—and starts by planting nine seedlings in her own backyard....
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
AuthorClaire A. Nivola
ISBN0374399182
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed....
Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace
AuthorJen Cullerton Johnson
A while back I read a couple picture books about Wangari Maathai, including Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai and Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa, and I loved them both, and I’m interested in reading her autobiography and her book about the Green Belt Movement,...
Dim Sum for Everyone!
AuthorGrace Lin
ISBN0440417708
In English, dim sum means “little hearts,” or “touches the heart,” but to this young girl, dim sum means delicious. On a visit to a bustling dim sum restaurant, a family picks their favorite little dishes from the steaming trolleys filled with dumplings, cakes, buns, and tarts. And as is traditional...
Uncle Jed's Barbershop
AuthorMargaree King Mitchell
ISBN0689819137
Summary/A Thoughtful Review:
In the last line of Margaree King Mitchell’s text she writes: “He taught me to dream, too.” These few words summarize the story Mitchell has written that tells of the love and determination of one man, Jedediah Johnson. Told though the eyes of Sarah Jean, his...
Erandi's Braids
AuthorAntonio Hernandez Madrigal
ISBN0698118855
The yellow dress Erandi wants for her birthday will look beautiful with her long, thick braids. But Mama's fishing net is full of holes, and there isn't enough money to buy both a new net and a birthday dress. The only solution lies with the hair buyers from the city. But Mama's hair isn't nearly as beautiful...
Beatrice's Goat
AuthorPage McBrier
ISBN0689869908
More than anything, Beatrice longs to be a schoolgirl. But in her small African village, only children who can afford uniforms and books can go to school. Beatrice knows that with six children to care for, her family is much too poor. But then Beatrice receives a wonderful gift from some people far away...
Elizabeti's Doll
AuthorStephanie Stuve-Bodeen
ISBN1584300817
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....
We All Went on Safari
AuthorLaurie Krebs
Join a group of friends as they set out on a counting journey through the grasslands of Tanzania. Along the way, the children encounter all sorts of animals including elephants, lions and monkeys, while counting from one to ten in both English and Swahili. The lively, rhyming text is accompanied by an...
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale
AuthorVerna Aardema
ISBN0140546162
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain is a beautiful picture book set in Nandi, Kenya, Africa. A tale of magic and tradition in a land where there has been no rain and the grass and animals are in desperate need to be replenished and fed. ‘As the big, black cloud, all heavy with rain, that shadowed the ground...
I Lost My Tooth In Africa
AuthorPenda Diakité
ISBN0439662265
Coretta Scott King Honor author/artist Baba Wague Diakite and his 12-year-old daughter, Penda, create a charming, original adventure story about losing a first tooth while visiting family in Mali.

More than anything, Amina wants to lose her loose tooth while visiting her family in Mali,...
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
AuthorMuriel L. Feelings
ISBN0140546529
This alphabet book gives a nice introduction to Swahili and the predominant language of Africa. The first thing I noticed was that it seemed easy to pronounce the words as they sound the way they are spelled. It could be they are the easy words. The next thing I noticed was the Lion King named characters...
The Tear Thief
AuthorCarol Ann Duffy
ISBN1846860458
La ladrona de lagrimas ha sido una historia realmente hermosa.

Nos muestra a la pequeña ladrona de lágrimas, una niña que sale por las noches en busca de las lágrimas de los mas pequeños. Éstas son de lo mas variadas. Cada color pertenece a un sentimiento distinto. Son rojas aquellas que...
Goal!
AuthorMina Javaherbin
ISBN0763645710
A lyrical, strikingly illustrated story celebrates the unifying power of soccer.

In a dusty township in South Africa, Ajani and his friends have earned a brand-new, federation-size soccer ball.

They kick. They dribble. They run. They score. These clever boys are football champions!...
Herb, the Vegetarian Dragon
AuthorJules Bass
ISBN1905236476
While the other dragons in the forest of Nogard hunt princesses for dinner, Herb merrily tends to his vegetable garden and leek soup. One day, upon learning the knights are planning a dragon hunt, Herb's carnivorous brethren hide in their caves and he is captured. Locked in the dungeon, Herb faces a difficult...
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
AuthorPaula Young Shelton
ISBN0375843140
In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child's unique perspective to an important chapter in America's history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did...
What Can You Do with a Rebozo?
AuthorCarmen Tafolla
ISBN1582462208
What can you use
to dress up,
play hide-and-seek,
carry baby brother,
and DANCE with?

A rebozo!

In a playful celebration of a vibrant culture, a young girl and her family show all the things they do in their daily lives with a rebozo, a traditional Mexican woven shawl....
Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad
AuthorJames Rumford
ISBN1596432764
WHEN BOMBS BEGIN TO FALL, Ali drowns out the sound of war with a pen.
 
Like other children living in Baghdad, Ali loves soccer, music and dancing, but most of all, he loves the ancient art of calligraphy. When bombs begin to fall on his city, Ali turns to his pen, writing sweeping and gliding words...
Papa, Do You Love Me?
AuthorBarbara M. Joosse
ISBN0811842657
A moving and poignant story about a fathers love for his son. A wonderful message of unconditional love.

The story begins with the sentence 'Papa do you love me?' and it is from this point that the child tests his fathers love through numerous 'what ifs' and imagined ordeals "what if I fell asleep...
Africa Is Not a Country
AuthorMargy Burns Knight
ISBN0761316477
12/11/2016 ** I am a librarian in a school with a significant number of students who have extended family in various countries in Africa. When I ask where their families are from, they simply reply, "Africa." I'm working hard with both students and staff to elicit a more specific response - the name of...
My Rows and Piles of Coins
AuthorTololwa M. Mollel
ISBN0395751861
"I emptied my secret money box, arranged the coins in piles and the piles in rows . . ." The market is full of wonderful things, but Saruni is saving his precious coins for a red and blue bicycle. How happy he will be when he can help his mother carry heavy loads to market on his very own bicycle--and how disappointed...
My Name Is Sangoel
AuthorKaren Lynn Williams
ISBN0802853072
Sangoel is a refugee. Leaving behind his homeland of Sudan, where his father died in the war, he has little to call his own other than his name, a Dinka name handed down proudly from his father and grandfather before him / When Sangoel and his mother and sister arrive in the United States, everything seems...
At the Same Moment, Around the World
AuthorClotilde Perrin
ISBN1452122083
Discover Benedict drinking hot chocolate in Paris, France; Mitko chasing the school bus in Sofia, Bulgaria; and Khanh having a little nap in Hanoi, Vietnam! Clotilde Perrin takes readers eastward from the Greenwich meridian, from day to night, with each page portraying one of (the original) 24 time...
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