Age
4-7
Grade
PK-3
James Rumford
Rain School
Hardcover
(HMH Books for Young Readers Oct. 25, 2010)
, 1 edition
It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road.
"Will they give us a notebook?" Thomas asks.
"Will they give us a pencil?"
"Will I learn to read?"
But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. "We will build our school," she says. "This is our first lesson."
James Rumford, who lived in Chad as a Peace Corps volunteer, fills these pages with vibrant ink-and-pastel colors of Africa and the spare words of a poet to show how important learning is in a country where only a few children are able to go to school.
- Series
- AWARDS: Kentucky Bluegrass Awards 2012 Master List Grades K-2
- ISBN
- 0547243073 / 9780547243078
- Pages
- 32
- Weight
- 14.1 oz.
- Dimensions
- 11.0 x 0.3 in.
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