In an article in called “I Didn’t Know There Were Cities in Africa! Challenging children’s — and adults’ — misperceptions about the African continent,” (Teaching Tolerance magazine, Number 34, Fall 2008, Brenda Randolph and Elizabeth DeMulder reveal a trap I’ve fallen into in my earlier discussion of Abela when they suggest an important way to [...]
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Doherty, Berlie. Abela: the Girl Who Saw Lions. London: Andersen Press, 2007
One narrative is about a girl in London with a loving family–single mother, doting grandparents. The other alternating one is about a girl originally in Africa who has watched her parents die of AIDS, then been illegally brought to England by an uncle who [...]
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