My great-grandmother's gourd
By: by Cristina Kessler ; illustrated by Walter Lyon Krudop.
Contributors: Krudop, Walter, 1966- ill.
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Water -- Fiction; Baobab -- Fiction; Trees -- Fiction; Grandmothers -- Fiction; Sudan -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Residents of a Sudanese village rejoice when a traditional water storage method is replaced by modern technology, but Fatima's grandmother knows there is no substitute for the reliability of the baobab tree.