T. Obinkaram Echewa
Autor(a) de I Saw the Sky Catch Fire
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Obras por T. Obinkaram Echewa
Magic Tree, The ( Nigerian Folktale) 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Membros
- 137
- Popularidade
- #149,084
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 12
- Línguas
- 1
I had mixed feelings about this book after reading it. I like the book because it talked about a story in Nigeria and it was interesting to read a story from a different country. It had descriptive words throughout the story, it also flowed. The characters were believable, but the main character ended up with powers to grow a tree within a day which humans are not able to do. The main character Mbi was well-developed, the story revolved around him. The book was in third person point of view. The illustrations did enhance the story, but if the author didn’t include illistartions it would have been hard to follow along with the story because of some of the words used in the story that we don’t see every day. The tory talks about an orphan child that no one helps but always asks Mbi the orphan to do all this work for them but when its time to eat or play no one is there for him. I think this is a story that pushes the reader to think about tough issues and broadens perspectives.… (mais)