Category: Africa

Citizen Kid Books from Kids Can Press

These beautifully illustrated books present clear, engaging information, personal “kid stories,” and then weave in simple suggestions about how each of us can make a positive, important difference. ONE WELL, THE STORY OF WATER ON EARTH, invites us to “Imagine…

Child Soldier

There is an ironic page in Child Soldier showing the narrator/protagonist, Michel Chikwanine, riding his Canadian school bus, living in two worlds at one time. The students around him are complaining about things privileged Western kids complain about: parents, phones,…

Amira’s Darfur: The Red Pencil

In The Red Pencil, Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrator Shane Evans, create for us, Amira.  Amira is growing up in Darfur. We in the US hear the word Darfur and think genocide. Amira insists that we see a bright, lively, loving culture…