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kristinannie
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Posted: May 02 2012 at 10:40am \| IP Logged

I have a lot of wonderful picture books for Sub-Saharan Africa (thanks to you!). We are doing one more week on Africa before we take a month long break. I would love a couple of picture books on the Sahara, Morocco, or Modern Egypt.

We are going to have our Africa party next week as well. I would love to hear some recipes! I make a lot of Moroccan food, but don't know any recipes from the rest of Africa!

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Posted: May 03 2012 at 12:25pm \| IP Logged

Ted Lewin, a favorite illustrator/author has a couple good ones for North Africa.

Day of Ahmed's Secret (Florence Parry/Ted Lewin) - Cairo, Egypt

The Storytellers (Ted Lewin) - Fez, Morocco

Al, Child of the Desert (Jonathan London/Ted Lewin) - Sahara

I know there are quite a few Egypt picture books (though most are ancient Egypt) - I'll have to get out my list and post later.

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Posted: May 03 2012 at 12:46pm \| IP Logged

Here are some from the MA list for the prep level:

Africa
Bongani’s Day: From Dawn to Dusk in a South African City (Gisele Wulfsohn)
Boushra’s Day: From Dawn to Dusk in an Egyptian City (Khaled Eldash
Nii Kwei’s Day: From Dawn to Dusk in a Ghanaian City (Francis Provencal)
Chidi Only Likes Blue (Ifeoma Onyefulu) – central Africa
A is for Africa (Ifeoma Onyefulu) – Africa
Ebele’s Favourite: a Book of African Games (Ifeoma Onyefulu) – Nigeria (10 traditional children’s games are described)
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book (Muriel L.Feelings) – southern Africa
Jamela books (Niki Daly) – South Africa
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (John Steptoe) – Zimbabwe
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret (Florence H.Parry) – Egypt
Honey . . . Honey . . . Lion! (Jan Brett) – Africa

Mater Amabilis Prep list

They are good for all ages, though. We found many at our library.

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Posted: May 31 2012 at 1:55pm \| IP Logged

Here's a Modern Egypt book recommended by Mater Amabilis for Year 1A, level 2. We got it from the library to preview and it looks good. There are a ton of copies on Abebooks, too.

52 Days by Camel: My Sahara Adventure

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