Grandmother's Alligator/Burukenge Wa Nyanya

By Wendy Wakefield Ferrin

Subjects: Grandmothers, Stories in rhyme, Upside-down books, Bilingual, Storytelling, Fiction, Swahili language materials, Specimens

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.