About this item
It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road.
"Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks. "Will they give us a pencil?" "Will I learn to read?"
But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. "We will build our school," she says. "This is our first lesson."
James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps volunteer, fills these pages with vibrant ink-and-pastel colors of Africa and the spare words of a poet to show how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.
Specifications
- ISBN
9780547243078
- Publication Date
2010-10-25
- Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Language
English
- Age Classification
Ages 3 to 5
- Size
9.0" l x 11.5" w x 0.5" h
- Author
Rumford, James (Ilt)
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