My Grandfather is a Magician: Work and Wisdom in an African Village - Hardcover

Onyefulu, Ifeoma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711212112 ISBN 13: 9780711212114

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 1998

Synopsis

This is the story of one little Nigerian boy who doesn't know what job he wants to do when he grows up. His father teaches in a school, his mother owns a bakery, Auntie Ngo is a doctor and an uncle is a woodcarver. But his grandfather seems wiser and more interesting, he is a traditional healer.

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Review:

"This book presents a positive and fascinating account of traditional medicine , and a brief note on ethnobiology which has arisen from it. It is superbly illustrated with the author's own photographs of contemporary Nigerian community life, and of the raw materials of grandfather's trade. This is an unusual and very rewarding book." -- Books For Keeps July 1998

About the Author:

Ifeoma Onyefulu was broughout up in a traditional village in Eastern Nigeria. Her highly acclaimed children's books are renowned for countering negative images of Africa by celebrating both its traditional village life and its urban life. A is for Africa, her first book, has become a classic title in the genre of cultural diversity and was praised by Publishers Weekly for its 'incisive view of her country's rich heritage'. Ifeoma has twice won the Children's Africana Book Award: Best Book for Young Children in the USA> Here Comes our Bride won the award in 2005 and Ikenna Goes to Nigeria in 2008. Ifeoma lives in London with her two sons. Find out more about Ifeoma's books at www.ifeomaonyefulu.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0711212112
• ISBN 13: 9780711212114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 26