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MALI
For Kids
52 Days by Camel, My Sahara Adventure
• Debora Pearson
• Lawrie Raskin
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 88 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
A travelogue for middle readers, much in the spirit of an adult travelogue but with full-color pictures and a child-friendly emphasis on camels, unusual people, outsize weather and benign adventure. Raskin's journey was inspired by a signpost in Morocco which read "Timbuktu 52 Days". He sets out from Fez and ends up (52 days later?) in Timbuktu, whence he continues on to the salt mines of Taoudenni, Mali.
(NAF11, $14.95) |
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Kings and Queens of West Africa
• Sylvianne Anna Diouf
HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 64 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
An appealing souce of information about West African history for readers ages 9 to 12. This slim, fully illustrated volume is a sequence of brief biographies of notable rulers of Senegal, Mali and Ghana.
(AFR119, $8.95) |
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Mansa Musa
• Khephra Burns
• Leo Dillon
• Diane Dillon
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 56 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
This fascinating biography follows Mansa Musa from his lowly boyhood in 14th-century West Africa to his adolescence as a slave in a foreign desert to his ultimate ascendance as king of Mali. Khephra Burns writes marvelously, and the Dillons' illustrations are out-and-out transcendant. It's a treasure for readers ages 8-12.
(WAF60, $18.00) |
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Trouble in Timbuktu
• Christina Kessler
LITERATURE •
2009 •
HARD COVER
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Twelve-year-old Ayisha ignores her parents' wishes, as well as the customary place of women in Timbuktu society, and joins her twin brother on a trek across the desert to Korioume in order to confront some clever thieves.
(WAF148, $17.99) |
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