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.
Author: James Rumford
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 10/25/2010
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 11.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780547243078
Language: English
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