Bundle of Secrets: Savita Returns Home (Best Children's Book 2014 - Africana Children's Book Award)

This is an Award Winning book that won the Children's Africana Book Award as Best Children's Book for 2014. It isabout a little girl, Savita, who travels back home to Kenya, East Africa after visiting relatives in her ancestral land of India. It provides a different perspective about culture and life in Africa through the eyes of Savita, her family and her African friend, Njeri. Based on the author's personal experiences, this story will keep young readers engaged as they follow Savita's journey in the dhow with a "bundle of secrets" from India that finally get revealed in her home in Kenya. The book is recommended for multicultural education in any classroom or home in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. These places are becoming increasingly diverse due to migration. The book has a list of questions and activities for teachers to use with students to raise awareness and appreciation about their own and adopted cultures.


About the Author
Dr. Mubina Hassanali Kirmani an award winning author was born in Kenya, East Africa with ancestry from India. She studied at the University of Nairobi and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has worked and written vastly to promote multicultural education, and is also co-author of Wandering Wind, a book for children, and Oral Literature of the Asians in East Africa, a recommended text for secondary schools in Kenya. She is currently a professor at Towson University, Maryland where she has been Chair of the College of Education Diversity Committee and co-directed the University-wide Multicultural Conference. She is often invited to conferences in the United States and internationally to present on the subject of teaching and learning in diverse societies.