Book description
Feel the force of fifty children's voices. Recognise the bravery of turning an empty page into a living story and celebrate how art and story-telling brings together young people who live continents apart.
Cosmic Cats connects Mumias Township Primary School (Kenya) and St Swithuns CE Primary School (England).
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Why read it?
2 authors picked Cosmic Cats as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
All reviews are subjective but I must confess that, in this one, I am totally biased.
I organized this project, bringing together the children of my village school, St Swithun’s C/E Primary School in the UK, with Mumias School in west Kenya. I was delighted to read their stories about cats.
The different realities of their lives influenced the stories. Rats often appeared in the Kenyan stories but none in the English ones. The launch saw the schools connected on Zoom. I watched the local authors sign books with pride and enjoyed Zoom as some of the Kenyan authors read…
Feel the force of fifty children’s voices and celebrate how art and story-telling unite young people who live continents apart. At age seven, I discovered libraries and a love of reading and writing, but the idea that a working-class girl from Luton could become an author was as crazy as eating the straw boater with which my birthplace was associated.
Middle-class parents can afford to buy books for their children. Lack of access to books for children without them is a handicap for upward mobility. That is why the Nasio Trust wants to build the first community library in West…
From Sylvia's list on The best books with insights into Kenya.
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