Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Muriel Feelings, Tom FeelingsSeries:Picture Puffin BooksAudience:Ages 4-8Publish date:1992-07-15Pages:56
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Puffin BooksISBN-13:9780140546521ISBN-10:140546529UPC:9780140546521Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Concepts, People & Places, Foreign Language StudyBook Topic:Alphabet, AfricaAward:1975 Caldecott Medal Honor Book - Picture Book Award|1974 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Winner - Picture Book AwardSize:8.53 x 10.58 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.48Product ID:SC2ZRKFBDJ
A companion to the Caldecott Honor Book Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book Jambo Means Hello introduces children to the Swahili alphabet with helpful pronunciation keys, while presenting East African culture and lifestyles through an easy-to-understand narrative and vivid illustrations. A Caldecott Honor Book * "A lyrical song of Swahili life."--School Library Journal, starred review
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Puffin BooksISBN-13:9780140546521ISBN-10:140546529UPC:9780140546521Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:Concepts, People & Places, Foreign Language StudyBook Topic:Alphabet, AfricaAward:1975 Caldecott Medal Honor Book - Picture Book Award|1974 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Winner - Picture Book AwardSize:8.53 x 10.58 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.48Product ID:SC2ZRKFBDJ
Muriel Feelings was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended California State College. She lived in Guyana, South America, and in East Africa, where she taught for two years. Upon her return to the United States she taught high-school art in Brooklyn, New York. Her award-winning books Moja Means One and Jambo Means Hello were both illustrated by Tom Feelings. Ms. Feelings passed away in September 2011. Tom Feelings, well-known illustrator and artist, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended the School of Visual Arts. In 1971 Mr. Feelings became the first African-American artist to win a Caldecott Honor with his illustrations for Moja Means One. Among the other award-winning books he has illustrated are To Be a Slave, a Newbery Honor Book by Julius Lester, and the Coretta Scott King-award winner Soul Looks Back in Wonder, a celebration of African-American creativity for which such distinguished writers as Maya Angelou, Margaret Walker, and Walter Dean Myers wrote poems. Mr. Feelings passed away in August 2003.
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🏆 1975 Caldecott Medal Honor Book - Picture Book Award|1974 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Winner - Picture Book Award
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