An Ethiopian retelling of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus illustrated with traditional works of art.

THE ROAD TO BETHLEHEM CSD

Laird, Elizabeth

HarperCollins, Publishers

THE ROAD TO BETHLEHEM TPB: A Nativity Story from Ethiopia

WAITE, Terry

Christian Books & Bibles

Retells the life of a thirteenth-century Ethiopian who performed many miracles for his people, such as feeding the hungry during a famine and raising the dead to life. Illustrated with paintings from an eighteenth-century illuminated manuscript.

The Miracle Child: A Story from Ethiopia

Religion & Spirituality

Harper Uk

The Day Sidney Was Lost

Reeder, Colin

Literature & Fiction

The Chunky Bears Go Camping

Scrace, Carolyn

The Day the Ducks Went Skating (A Little Red Tractor Book)

Duncan, the Little Red Tractor, helps out at the farm all year round. One blustery day in autumn, Veronica, the nosy calf, disturbs a hornet's nest and farmer Stan is even more glad than normal that Duncan is there to help.

The Day Veronica Was Nosy (A Little Red Tractor Book)

Duncan, the Little Red Tractor, lives on a farm in the English countryside. Stan, the farmer, milks his own cows, looks after sheep and pigs and does his own hay making. In this particular story the new sheepdog, Patch, guards Duncan when he crashes into a tree.

The Day Patch Stood Guard (Little Red Tractor Books)

An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. No place is safe for Tara and her family. Twelve-year-old Tara Hawrami lives a normal life in Iraq—until the day she sees a boy, a Kurd like herself, get shot by soldiers in the street. But Tara still doesn’t realize just how dangerous life for the Kurds has become until the Iraqi secret police come for her father. Then her family must flee their home for the mountains of Kurdistan, but even there they are not safe. Iraqi bombs drive the Hawramis over the border into Iran, where they must live in a brutal refugee camp. Will they ever find a place they can truly call home again? * “Laird weaves compelling facts about the conflict between the Arabs and the Kurds into her gripping tale about one family’s escape to freedom.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “An exciting, behind-the-headlines story.”—Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books

Kiss the Dust

Teen & Young Adult

Historical Fiction

Puffin Books

Beautiful Bananas

Beautiful Bananas ia an imaginative picture book in the African folktale tradition. A little girl sets off through the jungle to take a beautiful bunch of bananas to her grandfather. On the way she encounters a number of wild, but friendly animals who take her bananas, but then apologise and replace them with various treats, until finally an elephant gives her another bunch of bananas. A beautiful circular tale, the kind of which often appears in folklore around the world. This particular story is often heard in East Africa. *Elizabeth Laird is a high profile, award-winning author who has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and has won the Smarties Young Judges prize. She is also a specialist in African folklore. Her acclaimed works include When the World Began published by Oxford University Press *Liz Pichon is an exciting new children's book illustrator who has worked on a number of successful reference series for Oxford University Press

Children's Books

Oxford Univ. Pr.

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