Amadi's snowman

By Katia Novet Saint-Lot

Subjects: Literacy, Nigeria, fiction, Books and reading, Igbo (African people), Books and reading, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Literacy, fiction

Description: As a young Igbo man, Amadi does not understand why his mother insists he learn to read, since he already knows his numbers and will be a businessman one day, but an older boy teaches him the value of learning about the world through books.