My great-grandmother's gourd

By Cristina Kessler

Subjects: Grandmothers, Trees, fiction, Trees, Water, Fiction, Children's fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Baobab

Description: Residents of a Sudanese village rejoice when a traditional water storage method is replaced by modern technology, but Fatima's grandmother knows there is no substitute for the reliability of the baobab tree.