Grandmother's Alligator/Burukenge Wa Nyanya
Subtitle: a tail in two sittings = [Burukenge wa nyanya : mkia wa vikao viwili]
By: Wendy Wakefield Ferrin ; illustrated by Beverly Ashley Broyles ; [Swahili translation by Simmon Mwangi].
Contributors: Broyles, Beverly Ashley, ill.
Publisher: Wakefield Connection, Inc.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: 9278 Egret Ridge, Belmont, N. C. 28012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Upside-down books -- Specimens; Storytelling -- Fiction; Grandmothers -- Fiction; Swahili language materials -- Bilingual; Stories in rhyme; Upside-down books
Genres: Bilingual; Fiction/bilingual
Other titles: Burukenge wa nyanya
Description: A storytelling grandmother encourages children to find and share their own stories as they sit together on a bench carved like an alligator. Introduce your readers to a multicultural family while sparking curiosity about a language and culture of another place and time. Meet a convention-bucking Grandmother whose playful antics charm children of all ages into the kind of stillness that fosters creativity.
Notes: Swahili on inverted pages.