My great-grandmother's gourd

By Cristina Kessler

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

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.