A Story about Afiya by James Berry, illustrated by Anna Cunha [in Shelf Awareness]
12 Mar, by in British, Caribbean, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Repost, South American
In 1991, prolific Jamaican poet and Coretta Scott King Honor author James Berry (A Thief in the Village) wrote "A Story About Afiya," an exquisite celebration of the simple magic of childhood. Lantana Publishing, founded "because all children deserve to see themselves in the books...